January 2022
Robert K. Johnson
choirofday@cs.com
Bio Note: My poems are spins on our everyday world, which has always gripped me much more than science-fiction worlds. A now retired English Professor, I taught for many years at Suffolk University in Boston. I also for several years was Poetry Editor for IBBETSON STREET magazine. I have had several collections of poems published.

Even This Late in My Life

Stepping onto 
my backyard's patio,
I'm greeted by

a suprise of dawnlight—
whose stillness keeps
the coming day at bay,

and only after
its hush presents me with
a golden promise

for today, 
does it let an insect,
riding the air, 

start time ticking again.
©2022 Robert K. Johnson
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