Sunrise 2/3/24

Beaconsfield, Quebec (Montreal)

Photo by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2024

The shade is pulled above our bed, and through
The silken hanging drapes the sun affixes
Its beam to cast our shadows on the blue,
The pale-blue, green-blue walls where color mixes
With a vibrant painting painted by your mother,
Of pink and white flowers in a vase
That seem to be finale of some other
Suspended history of time and place.
Imagine Wallace Stevens played by Bill
Murray and the emperor like a groundhog
Finding his way over a distant hill
For the first time after that repetitive slog
Of doing time in Plato's illusory cave,
Then waking up free, no longer a slave.

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