the dismal winter can be a secret delight when the fog settles and an inner warmth rises from the deepest roots to the highest limbs

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sunrise from our pearl / district hotel roof / rip city crows cut capers / in the caterwauling wind / the sun coming up / a hail mary shot

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pink and blue on the

willamette river

the cool-mild air of portland

fills the lungs of the morning

with a rain-washed clean

emptiness and calm

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by the magic of

flight we chase the sun

subtracting time from the gold

leaf ledger of the morning

going west away

from the broken day

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2024

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standing in front of / église saint-joachim / facing le fleuve saint-laurent // weirdly warm for montreal / this time of year i / hail the mottled sky

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the sun is born each / moment of sunrise / perpetually rising // the cosmic christ is rising / and the word made flesh / is just what we are

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let the gray sky be / the nothing that you / and i are that gives rise to // the everything we enjoy / playing at being / in the golden light

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feverish sky / on the icy river / at the cusp of christmastide // and the beginning of the / return journey of / the warmhearted sun

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