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Day wanes
and sun, once bold and high
in summer’s sky,
is melting into a shimmering pool
of cool blue.
Kaleidoscope colors,
neon orange, brilliant mauve, deep rose, 
and softer hues of violet and pink blush
weave in and out
of trails of feathered clouds
that slowly, ever slowly
descend in the splendid sky.

Reclined inside my giant inner tube,
I gaze upward,
at ease with myself, 
content in the world surrounding me
and placid as the tranquil sea
lapping against my dangling feet.

My face tingles 
from the sun’s long kiss 
that has lingered on my skin 
since late afternoon.
I look down at 
the beads of water
gleaming on my chest.
I lay my head as far back as I can,
taking in the last rays of my lover sun,
letting their warmth 
caress my cheeks.
I close my eyes. . . 

then open them to a sky
grown slightly dark.
Shadows lengthen across the gentle waves.
I shiver, 
peer down at my arms and see
goose flesh has appeared.
The water now pulses a rhythmic lullaby
against my inner tube.
I want to stay here, 
rocking and rocking 
as the shadows merge into one 
and become the opposite 
of what I’d come here for.

But I am cold. Too much stillness
is upon me.
My day of sunny solitude
diminished and then finally disappeared,
leaving only the solitude.
My day is done. 
I head for home.

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