Tara // An Afternoon

AN AFTERNOON POEM IS RARE

An Afternoon Poem is rare-Afternoon is long after the first light-Afternoon is a time of heaviness and quietA time of rest-

Afternoon is after the morning work has been done-Afternoon is the weight of the day-Afternoon is the time after the day has lost its freshness-

Still there must be afternoon poems-There must be a beauty that emergesIn its own way,Perhaps from where lovers meetPerhaps from ‘ripeness is all’Perhaps from the anticipation of eveningPerhaps from winter where it is the warmest time of day.

There must be afternoon poems-Poems that celebrate all that warmth can bring-Poems of rest poems of sleep-Poems of waiting to believeThat in the eveningA new day and a new worldWill make life easier again.

Shalom Freedman