Monday, January 18, 2016

AFTER THE LAMENTATION

It was a quiet morning. 
The sun slide between the blinds, but 
it was cool in that perfect space 
between early and late. 

I listened.
The house was as still as a monastery,
Mute as a mime.   

And then I remembered
How In the canyon last night, 
while I paced beneath the fog-covered moon, 

the coyotes sang 
their aching lamentations, and
Gazing at the stars, 
deferred to the infinite heavens,
like the fur-bearing 
Monks that they are.

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