6/23/2009

Questions Upon Rising

What is the nature of
waking? Rising bread,
bright-yellow lungfuls
of light, exhaling darkness?

And what about hope? How
it clings like sleeping bats,
the talons of a hawk around
the rabbit's tender throat?

As for happiness, this too
comes in waves. Swells across
the inclined shore, then pulled
by its tail, back into the sea.

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