Abstracts of a July Morning
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Abstracts of a July Morning
David J Walker
I
I dreamed about a man selling
The scent of breakfast
He said I could pick the delivery
Date and time
And if I dared to imagine
Imagine an image of my father
That could replace the cook
And the rest of the fantasy (and breakfast)
Would be mine
II
The traffic lights glow reveals
the flow of lost travelers turning
from green to yellow then red
who thought they knew the way
and now no matter what they said
they are moving
among the absent and dead at the
cost of a mornings dissolution
III
What was your birthstone
who revealed your celebrations
do you remember the names
of the strangers who stopped you
from falling and bathed you in
the fountains of the Holy Water
from a garden hose
IV
July is duplicitous and part of a
Conspiracy to mute the coolness
Of summer mornings
There will be no
Weather warnings as
The day lingers into
Another warm summer evening
Copyright © David Walker | Year Posted 2021
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