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The Legal Studies Forum
Volume 30, Number 1/2 (2006) reprinted by permission Legal Studies Forum Lawyers & Poets A World Inhabited ORLANDO DELOGU _______________________ Tidings The sun is high but not warm. A less than gentle wind swirls the fallen leaves. The ground is hard - browns and faded greens predominate. The fall flowers bent and wilted have gone by - only seed pods looking for a resting place remain. A small animal scurries for the safety and warmth of its hole. There is a quiet in the air. A lone figure in the distance pulls a muff close about. All things seem to sense the coming winter. [593]
Darkening In the early summer, the coming of the night is slow. Clouds hold the light and give way to darkening shades grudgingly. The pale green of the forest becomes a deeper shade, but slowly. The water stills and reflects the lingering light. Time passing fashions little changes, an increasingly darker hue. The day holds on to a slender reed of light. Though it cannot be full again for but a little while, it clings to this turn as if it were life itself; perhaps it is. And for us, each minute of the deepening richness can be savored, before the full quiet of night. [594]
A Warning Too busy! The nuances pass you by - the coming of the night, the darkening sky. [595]
Holiday It's the Fourth of July. Young men still must die for old men's insanity, their pride and their vanity. I don't know why. [596]
Orlando Delogu is a professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law. He attended the University of Utah, and received his M.S. (Economics) from the University of Wisconsin where he obtained his law degree in 1966. Delogu is a prolific legal scholar and has served on various environmental and land use boards, councils, and commissions. He is the author of a book of poetry, Ruminations (Press 22, 1986). |
