The Snowman on the Strand

A Poem

Illustration created by Midjourney

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The Snowman on the Strand

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A snowman stood alone and sad
upon a golden strand,
each arm a stick which ended in
a twiggy-fingered hand.

A palm tree overarched his hat,
but all the world lacked mirth.
A plaster man lay on a towel,
but no man lived on Earth.

He wondered if the atom bomb
had blown them all away,
because of all the fluffy snow
that on the sand now lay.

The sky seemed like a shiny dome
of weirdly lucent glass;
the air, a humid thickness, like
a deliquescing mass.

And sometimes (at the oddest hours)
the snow would rise and then
would float up to the stratosphere
and fall back down again.

Because he had the time to think,
he pondered this and more,
that snowman in the snow globe in
the gift shop by the shore.

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