Before Recollection

From Before Recollection:
TRANSCENDENTAL POSTCARD

Ann Lauterbach
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The outlook such that time is told on waking,
Without aid of cock or clock's crow.
In fact all the birds are elsewhere,
Poised on glossy page or in some fall
Migration. Sun up over mountain is precision,
Then mist travels, exhaling day.
All else, all change, is air,
Dew relenting on the blades
And mirror rhymes
Where water bears resemblance:
A strut of hues to pale even Revlon's alchemy and,
In the center of its glaze, a cauldron of sky-cast blue.

Author: Ann Lauterbach
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/21/1987
Pages: 90
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.48w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9780691014371