Three Perspectives

Tim Thornburgh

Framed in silver
preserved
in a sepia print,
Snapped in the scissored sunlight
streaming through coconut fronds
swaying
to the vagaries
of an inconstant island breeze

Three young men:
easy smiles,
arms linked,
exuding confidence,
Dominate the foreground
of this pastoral
island still life.

Yet squeezed in the background
Hovering above the coconut trees
that lean toward the
indifferent
flat blue sea,
Are bruise-purple clouds,
Promising
high winds and heavy seas,
As hurricane season
salts the air.

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Tim Thornburgh
Tim Thornburgh graduated from Seattle University and shortly thereafter joined the Peace Corps. He served as a high school teacher of English and History at Outer Islands High School in Falalop, Ulithi. Tim has also worked in Yap, Pohnpei, Saipan, the Philippines and Dayton, Ohio. Tim now lives in the spring, summer and fall in Bremerton, Washington. Tim's poetry has been published in The San Fernando Poetry Journal, Amelia, the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Humanidat, Moose Bound Press, Night Roses, Four Tulips, 7th Circle, Lowlife Lit Press, Sublimation and After Thought.