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i'm not complaining / but the sunrise scene / i'm looking for can't be seen // this morning just the tangle / of car tires and train / wheels fading to gray

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sunrise begins to / last till sunset this / time of year and the days flash // over the lake like wild geese / honking frantically / in the meager light

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grizzled the morning / takes on airs of gray / and i become a gray man // standing on the gray doorstep / of a gray heaven / looking for the sun

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the breath of the sun / rests on the river / before the sunrise sets in / the burnished bronze horizon / with gold-fringed blue sky / declares what's coming

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with apologies to Wallace Stevens

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sonnet

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chink in the armor

of the autumn sky

allows us to see the burning

furnace fire of the sunrise

pink and tangerine

as the rain begins

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pink river morning

with yellows and blues

and november waterfowl

floating across the glassy

surface of the day

getting underway

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A poem based on a dream from 1988

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The Northern Pacific Kennewick-Pasco Bridge

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