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Sunday, March 05, 2006

What I heard Thursday at 5:30 a.m.

Early morning birdsong

One mockingbird
pulls the thread of night
until it unravels.

Falling from
that loose moonlit hem:
sunrise.

2 comments:

TheTart said...

Beautiful... your WORDS and the mockingbird!

Smooch,
The Tart

Dana S. Whitney said...

Wow... a blog link with an editorial!! Thanks. the Lonely Doll books were by Dare Wright... and there's a bio of Dare Wright herself. Part of the Judy Garland era... lots of pre and post-war pressure to be more than was possible as part of the socialite fringe. Now I'm off to read more of your entries. (The little sister of that mocking bird was hiding in my front hedge yesterday morning... not a great whistler yet, but learning.