Poetry 365

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Tuesday, Nov 10th, 2009

Light, your light,

slides

across the uneven skin of the earth-

longing to be waves;

to swell and surge like curled waves

caught in a horizontal ring.

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Unlike the son of humanity;

not rising, divine,

a vertical reprimand,

accentuating the stark, defiant trunks of trees—

marking the slanted backs of men,

and their grotesque, handwritten notes

filed away in their brains.

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Their shadows lengthen then,

like clockwork,

shrink into dark halos,

stagnant.

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But Light,

your light magnifies,

washes out into infinity,

the flakes of daylight,

as dew on spring leaves, surprisingly—

about to blot me out.