photo: ralph murre
AT MIRROR LAKE
by Bruce Taylor
The
sun rises from its depth
to
set the world on fire,
water
overflows with clouds
thirsting
for rain.
Tops
of trees shimmer still
following
the current light
rootless
in the shallows
where
the sky edges the shore.
Two
lone boats doze and float
the
morning, misty as it settles,
the
same old man, the same dog,
another
day the world allows.
~
from The Longest You've Lived Anywhere:
Poems New & Selected
