Category: sky/sunrise/sundown
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New Orleans 2010
(edited to third person- maybe I’ll write a chapbook of memories referring to myself in third person) ======================= he walked all night in the French Quarter beignet sugar dust on his coat sat on a bench among the homeless watched the sun rise over the river listened to conversations as if he sat on a…
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after last night’s rain
because I was sleeping I do not know if cicadas sang all night they greeted me at dawn as I walked in the park coffee cup in hand the surface of the pond rippled reflected trees long shadows became light insistent life droned sonic Tinder profiles pick me, pick me, pick me 7-17-21
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quiet walk dawn rises water drop falls in tree litter lands one leaf bounces or was it reaching up for more 6-3-21
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rise and kiss the bottom of the sky
owl moves from tree to tree calling to the dark pregnant possum looks both ways before it waddles into the street mockingbirds sing hallelujah chorus at 4 am woodpecker swoops low at day break cat abandons breakfast reservation blue jays dance among azaleas fish rise and kiss the bottom of the sky 4-8-21
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pre-dawn haikus
frogs trilled mating songs slowly, the trees went silent one still calls at dawn waiting in the dark watching neighbors’ lights come on possum waddles home birds announce spring break tree blossoms await first light school bus squeaks, not me
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a fasting poem
before darkness flees over the horizon and chill removes its coat birds anticipate dawn call out wake, wake prophecy is fulfilled light is coming the sun returns 3-10-21
My husband's poetry 