The Professor’s City of Sunshine

The Professor’s City of Sunshine
from The Natural Chronicles
4/14/2009
By Me

The wind willingly creates the susurrus of the trees
In this obfuscatory day in the city of sunshine.
Unfortunately, the yielding yellow lamp leaves
The sky lightless. How have these shivering shallow deciduousness of thine
Come to this city of sunshine? The holy hole of white light and vapors
Of the life paint a labile sky, but it was not native nature that brought
This chimerical, grandiloquent pulchritude to the city of sunshine. Neighbors

And visitors beseech vicissitude after portending an outré destination. The thought
Of natural life meandered away from the destructive
Citizens. Have I, the denizen, become a citizen or am I just a resident,
An inhabitant of the city of sunshine who is obsessive
Of being called Natural. “But Professor” you say, No student!
Their Artifice has taken plenary manipulation causing this disease.
I will watch the mellow morning reverse etiolation of the trees.