Dead Tired

My skin is blue here – Right now at Day’s
++++++just opened mouth – Teeth-gleaming-white-new
daylight

I hear the birds far off first
++++++a whistle with an eyelash width

I do not   go to the window
Clouds glide the new sky – I miss them
Spring rabbit along the wired fence line
There   just there   soft hide rising with its small breath – Miss
The white utility van turn its engine, roll down the hill
Grass bent   dewed and tender.

 



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Richard Carey:

This was at the end of winter – March, I think. I really had been waking up with the birds for the last two months. It was accidental, then reflex – my body (or mind?) kept waking at the same dusk-hour. The birds were the only thing ever going on. I heard the day start in a heady stupor. My room stayed dark and I stayed still. I let morning grow around me.

Richard Carey
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