Thursday, December 15, 2022

Intimations of Gray

By now the first light should have appeared. 
It is a gray morning.
I muse more and more about gray mornings,
what they mean, the metaphysical intimations,
 if I’m seeing what I need to see
or am waiting for what is to come.  
It takes three sets of eyes to see –those that look behind,
those that see where I am, those looking ahead.
The yarrow sticks are cast.
The sun rising behind a deep pink cloud.

-Byron Hoot

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