gentle shadows alert me to<\/p>\n
darkness of my apartment.<\/p>\n
reaching for my new cane,<\/p>\n
I hobble to the bathroom,<\/p>\n
wash my face, reflect on<\/p>\n
early hour eyelids,<\/p>\n
step into the kitchen,<\/p>\n
fill the blue kettle,<\/p>\n
boil water while I<\/p>\n
wash last night’s dishes.<\/p>\n
I hear noise as the sanitation truck<\/p>\n
rolls down eighty-seventh street.<\/p>\n
I fill the cup with instant coffee,<\/p>\n
carry it haltingly to the table.<\/p>\n
opening the shutters, I become<\/p>\n
a witness to early drizzle,<\/p>\n
along with drip-drip dripping<\/p>\n
of second floor neighbor’s air conditioner,<\/p>\n
which adds a melancholy<\/p>\n
punctuation to my first words.<\/p>\n
grey, damp atmosphere is the<\/p>\n
one in which I become a poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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