Beautiful, Max. Person of long association, indeed! This accepting, celebratory view of a little pre-morning marvel indicates a settling in your new
surroundings, I think. Despite all those lacks, so much promise.
On Wed, Apr 10th, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Autumn Night
>
> At an uncertain
> well-past-midnight hour,
> body stirred, person
>
> in it, of long
> association,
> stumbled from
>
> warm bed and carpet
> to cool-under-foot
> tiles of a moist bathroom.
>
> Face, avoid the mirror.
> Feet, shamble
> past the window.
>
> It was the light
> from the night sky,
> lacking moon,
>
> lacking cloud,
> lacking wind,
> gentle, steady,
>
> circumambient -
> foreshadowing
> lawn-wide dew
>
> or a first frost,
> that redeemed
> the occasion.
>
> Out there, down there,
> morning would show
> more new mushrooms
>
> sturdy of stalk,
> fragile of canopy,
> keeping old promises
>
> made last year,
> as the earth turned -
> shyly pleased to be seen.
>
>
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