Mother Nature Draws the Dawn

** Mother Nature Draws the Dawn ** Already, Dawn sets off This longitude’s waking, Displaying nearby trees Into their scribbled silhouettes In shades Of gray with blasts of black masses — Points gathered Fronting the quick brightening over Yesterday’s leaving darkness, And bringing forth this day’s white-glazed, Cloud-faced sky — Appearing before my sleepy eyes Without any distinguishable color, and Simply seen as an unfoldng background — A lightening That shows even before the blendings — With the coming gifts to sight Of the perception of dimensions And the aspects of perspective, To be seen in the expanse beyond my window In this dawning moment ~ As the world appears quite like A flattened Earth, Like a doodled scene Of blotches and specs — in Mother Nature’s ink line & wash Landscape Created on her personal, unbordered paper. ——————————————————————— (c) sally young eslinger 8/17/2023 (For Jim. Happy 40th)