Gator Bait (Tennis Team Mysteries) (Volume 1)
by Jeanne Meeks
The Paradise Palms tennis team uncovers real estate fraud and murder as they campaign to save the life of their favorite alligator.
The Paradise Palms tennis team uncovers real estate fraud and murder as they campaign to save the life of their favorite alligator.
Winter Solstice 2003
(Year of my Quintuple Bypass)
I thought at first
The cataracts had come back —
the sun glinting cold and yellow
over the tennis courts
brought out the Bollé glasses.
Nor was noon better —
the sun still low and stuck in time
as I drove on the causeway
to and from
the mainland mall madness,
gray gulf and sky,
whatever shred was left of day
shrouded in jaundiced twilight.
For once I was relieved
to see night begin
with Venus burning bright
and low like a jetliner
and even lower on the horizon —
the thin crescent of moon
slivering into renewal.
From darkest day had come
most shining night
and on this longest night
of my longest year —
the promise
of ever-brightening days
waiting to rise
above my horizons.
Joe Pacheco
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