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    White Ibis Dawn
    White Ibis Dawn
    White Ibis Dawn
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    White Ibis Dawn

    By Renate Model

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    Sanibel is my spiritual home, although not my actual one. I have learned from Sanibel's beautiful shells a philosophy of life I carry with me, nature's eternal cycle born in the sea and returning inevitably to it. And what of our life on earth? Brief, randomly beautiful and cruel, always stunning to our senses. These are the thoughts behind the words of my poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 14, 2011
    ISBN9781467064613
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      White Ibis Dawn - Renate Model

      © 2011 by Renate Model. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 10/21/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4670-6463-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4670-6462-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4670-6461-3 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011918427

      Printed in the United States of America

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      I. WHITE IBIS DAWN

      ANCESTORS

      WHITE IBIS DAWN

      FINDINGS

      POINT LOBOS

      TURTLE BEACH

      SEA CREATURES

      SEA SHADOWS

      In her eightieth year

      THE DROWNING

      Arline

      BEACH RUN

      BLUE HERON

      SEA BRIDE

      BEACHCOMBING WITH YVONNE

      ODE TO A CONCH SHELL

      SEA WALK

      TREAD GENTLY

      THE SEA

      THE SEA’S SONG

      THE SHORE

      LETTER TO SANIBEL

      Eternal

      II. LILAC,

      HYACINTH

      LILAC, HYACINTH

      BUILDING STONE WALLS

      SENTINEL

      MONARCH

      CIDER APPLES

      RITES OF PASSAGE

      MARK ME!

      LULLABY

      SPARROW

      LET HER GO

      Ours is a dying star.

      LONELINESS AT A CRASH SITE

      LETTER TO EVELYN

      MOURNING E

      LARK

      DECEMBER SPRING

      Splinters

      Men die

      FRAGMENTS

      TO DAVID FOR SARA

      SOLSTICE (a Litany)

      STANDING WITH PINES

      My House

      IiI. COMPASS POINTS

      ABIQUIU

      ISLA de MUJERES

      NIGHTSCAPE AT KANAB

      MESA

      NOTES OVER UTAH

      ROCKIES PERSPECTIVE

      MEXICAN SONG

      UXMAL

      EQUATORS

      CEFALU

      TOMB OF INEZ DE CASTRO

      Beslan Carousel

      LONG PAST MOURNING

      SARAJEVO

      THE BORDER

      TRANS-MERIDIAN DISSONANCE*

      VIRGINIA MORNING

      TOBERMORY MIDNIGHT

      NEW HAMPSHIRE SOLSTICE

      NEW HAMPSHIRE EPITAPH

      My Father’s Land

      INK SPOTS

      Patriarch

      Departing JFK

      MERCURY

      A TIME FOR EVEREST

      Purse or purslane

      11:59

      12.31.99

      Dedication Page

      Poems, like tears or music, sing,

      scream or sigh, paint

      visions, dreams, echoes

      to stun the indifferent ear,

      wake the unseeing eye

      I. WHITE IBIS DAWN

      ANCESTORS

      First light and I’m ankle deep in

      shells, wading the surf with Ibis on pink legs,

      screaming gulls and silent heron, plundering

      pelicans.

      The sea is abundant, demented,

      a wastrel spewing fossils and jewels in baroque

      splendor across the sand, then receding to deep

      and secret rendezvous.

      The beach, a Kazakstan carpet,

      bleached white by noon,

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