Thursday, May 1, 2014

AT MIRROR LAKE

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