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Jan 2017
It glowed gold
not orange or yellow
It was gold I say!
When I lifted the blind
there it was
from behind those distant hills.
Gift of the morning
and I welcomed it.

The warped cutting board
the stinking drains
not enough soap,
nor medicine.
Never enough
Gratitude a long way off
Then this gift changed
a complaining heart.


Out there I am queen
Out there I can breath
Unsullied by housework
and balancing accounts
cheated of playfulness
and human contact.
This gift of the morning
thisΒ Β ribbon of gold.
morning calls from outside, inside this poor spirit is always needy
Leaetta May
Written by
Leaetta May  Oregon
(Oregon)   
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