A Montaukett Sunset
A summer day draws towards to a close.
At a Montauk bar, The Montaukett
named with a hotel after a Native tribe.
Bar staff wear natives on their t-shirt backs
as they serve frozen mudslides
that slide down cool and smooth
after a day of August heat.
Next comes a sunset like no other,
where crowds line up to get a grand view.
This Eastern end sky turns orange, lavender, pink mixed with blue.
As quick as this change takes form
the sun bows lower and lower
into a gradual transition towards the water edge
past the ground.
Until it’s eventually swallowed up and disappears.
This place is like heaven
in its beauty of painted sky,
It feels like a different world,
a world away
especially without you
inside.