2 postcards from Cape Town

timeless way, sat. night
kalk bay retreat

spiderplant bostonfern
palmtree -- oceantrain
clumping by the
little candle's burning
slower tonight it
seems the endless
drizzle finally stopped
in time for the
patches of bluesky
to watch the sun
set with a rainbow
blazing

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waiting on the wrong platform
sunday just after noon
by the palmtrees, kalkbaai station

on a clear bluebright
day you can see the
mountain range stretching
to hermanus and a rocky
old hill rises
just behind you
no surfers' waves today
just a quiet lapping


- Rose