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# A winter poem for the summer
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/a-winter-poem-for-the-summer-editor/
- Published: 2008-07-17T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T20:11:43.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Alex Einhorn Santa Monica*

Here’s, if you will, a poem I wrote a few winters ago: Sometimes, out my window, mornings in the cool, in the off-white almost-light, a gray Dove sits the horizontal of the balustrade, soft-shuffling his feathers.

Stops. Pours an incredible complexity of sound, a song-surprise, a Muezzin’s Call. Across the way the faithful, the soft-wing allow the enveloping silence.

One returns it note for note, others take it up, while all the mourning floats in the silence.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 17, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071708.pdf?ref=smdp.com)