Category: light
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Edge of night
You sit on the end of a bench with a book and warmed over coffee On the other end is a pine cone you don’t begrudge it space and let it stay In a late afternoon woods warblers sing in bushes cardinals call back and forth You watch a leaf pick itself up off the…
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The heft of light
I went alone to an art exhibition for a friend On the way home I pondered how art changes who I am Light breaking on horizons and scenes of dusk or darkness draw me in Was it sunset or sunrise? Was the darkness evening or predawn? At 3 a.m. I stand barefoot on the porch…
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Cayce river walk
In shade of an eddy where you drank children fished for brim and sunfish with a cane pole and a worm every summer you leaned a little more above the river towards the light where no trees stood I would sit at your feet watch spotted newts hide in plain sight and ask you the…
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Dear Dr. Alpert
…I woke up this morning and read of your walking through a door in the sky …I hope this was as good for you as you were to us …I hope someone was there to walk you home illumined by countless stars …I hope you are allowed to continue investigating truth in all the worlds…
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Taste Air
this morning clouds fled unfiltered light returned _____ tired trees ready for rest snuggle blankets gold and yellow _____ in green aprons others work cook sap of carbon and light _____ waiting for winter solstice to swaddle rags of bright gasp…..taste air and leap into light _____ when my season comes into unfiltered light I…
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East to West
yellow light on hillside coming through the trees …..promise of dawn yellow light on hillside coming through the trees ….. raging midnight fire 11-3-19
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