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Morning poem # 1

Posted on | September 24, 2007 |

The sun falls in broken rectangles on the floor
shards of yellow plates
we gather in our pockets,
for the winter ahead.
Our skin bare to the wind, the grass tattoos
our arms with zig zags and clover
while the moments grow steady
and the verdant humming
of summer dwindles
into the big-moon nights and stillness.

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3 Responses to “Morning poem # 1”

  1. love squalor
    September 24th, 2007 @ 11:21 am

    “shards of yellow plates” - - perfect.

  2. Rose
    September 24th, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

    Here’s a quickie :)

    After an Equinox

    The air seems
    to take a breath

    We listen again
    a symphony of attention

  3. Molly
    September 25th, 2007 @ 10:12 am

    Monday, 24 September 2007

    Each day, spent in a sea of spent Kleenex,
    mouth slack, my head left soft,
    confused. My head can move, slog
    along, pillow a hope at the end
    of the evening. There are vibrations
    in my lips, a tingle, trepidation.
    There is want, a one nostrilled exhaustion,
    the stale taste of snot and juice.
    I have spent my weekend buried
    in blankets, drifting off into some
    netherworld, all pressed against memory.
    There is soup, there is a cold hand
    pressed against forehead, there is you.

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