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On old Cape Cod

Chapter 9: The Final Rose
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About This Book

A collection of lyrical poems that celebrates and mourns a coastal landscape through images of dunes, marshes, sea, winds, birds, flowers, lighthouses, shipwrecks, and changing seasons. The work blends close natural observation with wistful memory and maritime lore, moving between quiet descriptive pieces and dramatic evocations of storms and loss. Recurring motifs such as salt, sand, driftwood, and light bind domestic scenes and seafaring sketches to themes of transience, rootedness, and the consoling, restorative power of place.

The Final Rose

From an ember
bud that glows,
In September
flames a rose.
Bursting prison
doors of bark,
Blithely risen
like a lark.
Sweetly winging
to my room,
Ever singing
in perfume.
Tardy comer,
woodsprite blest,
Dying summer’s
last and best!