June 2020
Bio Note: The most recent title, (the 12th,) Analects was released last year.
Recent journal publications include Sisyphus, The Satirist, The Ekphrastic Review, Thimble,
Innisfree, and The American Journal of Poetry.
Morning Words
In poems, morning words
sound roundly odd, assume selves
born in sunrise, newly woken
to the world, a golden zone.
In morning the poem’s shape
turns and folds, a moving helix
that thins or grows fat, glows
a morning orange god, a globe.
Poems in morning are full of themselves,
like members of a family, school children
before school, not yet subdued by lazy noon
or evening’s elegy. Best news is morning news.
©2020 Michael Gessner
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