The Plain, by Samuel Strathman

Tantalus Range, by Frederick Horsman Varley (Canada) 1930

The Plain
  
*Sauron’s wide yellow eye
accompanied by a murky
underpass in the ether regions.
“Come, talisman, come!”
 
Pastel park made
of dunes, crawling
with a mirage of locusts.
 
Wintry hills collide
with spring, polar-verdant,
the tap’s on.
 
Zipper the tent,
drink your tea black
before the earth decides
what it wants to be.
 
Samuel Strathman

*Note:  Sauron is the main nemesis in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.  He uses an eye to try and find  the hero, Frodo,  with an all-powerful ring.

Samuel Strathman is a Jewish poet, author, educator, and editor at Cypress: A Poetry Journal.  Some of his poetry has appeared in Ice Floe Press, Feed Magazine, Mineral Lit Mag, and elsewhere.  His first chapbook, In Flocks of Three to Five, will be published by Anstruther Press later this year (2020).  He lives in Toronto, Ontario.