Early Morning by Elizabeth Wittenberg (Louisiana)

I think that you might be a sunrise
the kind that warms a mountain morning
and melts the late summer frost

So I think that makes this moment the morning
and I think that makes me the land
hesitantly accepting light
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But remember that I have grown accustomed
to the chill and dark mystery of night
so that might make you a wonder to me

But I know that I have always sought sunshine
hoping to catch its reflection on a moonbeam
or looking to stars that belong to other galaxies

And I think that I am ready for your rays now
though it might be too early to know
if this brilliant splay of color will mean

a clear and lovely, full and sunny day
cloudless and aimless and endless; free and bright
but I think that I know that it might





Elizabeth Wittenberg is a New Orleans-based writer, originally from Chicago. Her poetry and fiction have been published in several literary magazines, including Capsule Stories and Gabby & Min's Literary Review. When not writing, she prefers to be outside. ​