Tag: aurora

  • Further Encounters With Aurora

    Further Encounters With Aurora

    From a series of poems written during my stay in Lapland.

    I thought the time
    had finally come
    to meet again:
    the right month,
    the right place.

    But shame on me
    for undervaluing
    your unpredictability.
    You’re a slap in the face,
    a rinse of humility.

    You appear at your fancy,
    wrapped in clouds,
    and to frozen photographers
    with tripods and all,
    you blow raspberries.

    Showing up in pictures
    but not to naked eyes?
    Okay, we get it:
    being taken for granted
    is not your style.

    As per our old habit,
    you come when I’m leaving.
    Is our situationship toxic
    at this point in our story?
    I guess we’ll be seeing.