the sunrise a gash / in the malaise of / this socked-in monday morning / carpet woven of the sun / from the frayed ends of / the end of summer

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this river was my / consolation when / i suffered the desert of / those days of youthful yearning / and nothing has changed / now that i am old

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electricity / pulses through the trees / the sunrise blazing behind // the hotel drapes of the gods / the sidewalks empty / the runways ready

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song

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sonnet

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the blood of the sun / is in the river / this morning everlasting // thinking ahead to later / recollecting this / you and i here now

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what molecules move / through the veiny leaves / of the trees and how i ask // animal exhalations / plus water drawn up / to breathe with the sun

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no sun to be seen / in the rainy scene / of montreal this morning // only les nuances de gris / and the upside down / world reflected there

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lever du soleil / sur le saint-laurent / mon amour à la maison // birds and clouds adrift across / the bilingual sky / au petit matin // rising of the sun / on the saint lawrence / my love back at home asleep // les oiseaux et nuages volent / dans le ciel bilingue / in early morning

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the loss of three hours / due to flying east / against the spinning planet // hints at how time is a lie / and sunrise a ruse / of eternity

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