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Summer 1987   Vol. 4 #1
Summer 1987   Vol. 4 #1

Poems/Not Poems

Taking a Walk

By Ella Mental

 
 
Barre, Massachusetts

 

In the uncertain hour

just before dawn

I walk, counting steps

(one, two, three

One, two three, four…)

 

The air is cold and clear

scattered stars

linger in the ink-blue sky

 

Only the palest premonition at the field’s edge

there

behind those trees

(one, two, three…)

 

By such imperceptibly gradual

degrees

it lightens the sky

I can’t see

precisely at what point

night turns to day

(four, five, six, seven…)

 

I only know:

when I start to walk it’s dark

and when I end

it’s light.

 

December 1984

 

∞

 

From the Summer 1987 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 4, No. 1)
Text © 1987–2022 by Ella Mental

Topics

Walking, Poetry


 
 
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