Unbordered Poems | Examples

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.


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(c) sally young eslinger 8/17/2023
(For Jim. Happy 40th)