TAHOE WINTER ANNUAL 2012
WRITTEN SELECTION
Sam Doctors
Doctors is a retired professor of business and government who recently moved to the North Tahoe area where his wife is the rabbi. He published a chapbook in 2011, ‘Moods and Moments of a Restless Mind,’ (Finishing Line Press). He has published several other poems and memoir essays in the past seven years.
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I was sure that sunrise only came through buckeye and bay,
now I see blush through dark needles of morning pines
reflected again and again in a full wall mirror opposite.
The mystery of this mirroring reflection now seems more real
than the earlier scene through branch and leaves behind my house.
This early morning sky takes on all a new network has to reveal.
Living one place, moving to another changes sunrise reality,
no treed hills behind the house, now Sierra’s in the short distance,
the Lake but a few miles away, awaits the blush to become translucent.
Only top the rise on the connector road to know a morning Tahoe.
Its morning mists hug the shore from edge to edge, side to side,
snow-covered mountains tug at the sky even late in summer,
taking on the pinks and yellows of an early late summer day,
turning slowly, moving from ebon night to sunflower day,
a new dance, a new place, a new sunrise reality.
