Sunrise 11/27/23

Rondel

Photo by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2023

The fog refused to lift
This morning at the break of broken day.
The cable bridge in darkness lay.
Between the sky and water stood a rift

Of dark solidities adrift
And soft soliloquies of words to say
The fog refused to lift
This morning at the break of broken day.

I felt myself begin to sift
Into the river's sway
Through foggy spaces of my time away
From sunlight and the morning's gift
The fog refused to lift.