Augie's Coffee Shop in old downtown Redlands
113 N. 5th Street
art by Cindy Rinne + music and poetry
poetry featuring CSUSB MFA student readers, Julie Paegle, Ruth Nolan
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The pool is warm, the sun is kind,
it's mid November and Tahquitz god
20 miles away, 10,000 feet high
resides on the red-tinged peak
from where summer thunder rolls down
Chino Canyon, sometimes it wants
to rain but can't, we are the last
stop against the tall mountains
that separate us from the coast
where the ocean resides, a shadow
pain of some kind, you can save
yourself from drowning in sand dunes
by throwing a coat on your head
you left a paint stained white shirt,
the clouds have long dissipated
and left us behind, the long
stares have evaporated, it's
winter, time to open the blinds
Ruth Nolan
copyright (c) 2009 Ruth Nolan
Holiday Season
a lone strand of colored lights
the fat kind
in an old person's gnarled fingers,
disorganized ocotillo cactus tree
that blooms
trumpeted reds at all odd times
of year
you
never know what
happens when you add dark
season colors
to their flimsy limbs
that survive
next to aluminum-tinned trailer
windows and mason-jarred prickly
pear cactus jelly
wrapped with
second hand
ribbon these
odd winter blooming things,
sharp at the touch
leaning at the tongue
thin at the knee
ten, fifteen, twenty
maybe forty
feet high
shallow rooted
under ground
remote in neighbor
surviving on
very little
rain
Ruth Nolan
copyright (c) 2009 Ruth Nolan
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