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Photo: ‘Morning Moth’ by Ian Lindsay – Pixabay
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OPENING\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

And I thought\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 had I never looked within, never plumbed my own depth, how could I even be acquainted with how or what I was grounded in\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 would water-bugs skimming the surface of placid pools ever know anything put the flat-line? Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem reminds me, my own time-line can be plumbed\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 opened\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 experienced fully\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 in-depth. There is more to pain and sorrow and joy than my ideas about them\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the expanse and profoundness from which they emerge\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

MORNING MOTH
\n\tby Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been wrestling with a breath for hours now,
\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not unusual,
\n My days typically start that way,
\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my morning norm,
\n My lungs feel ragged,
\n There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rusty sort of struggling about them,
\n I reach down into them
\n And find what seems to be
\n A halting aching,<\/p>\n

As if night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long similitude of death
\n Has formed a kind of crust,
\n And has settled into itself,
\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aiming for deeper sleep,
\n Some darkly easy absence realm
\n Where molecules give way to particles,
\n And those to barely spinning
\nModalities of time,<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finally nothing much at all,
\n Maybe a few soft brushes
\n Of passing gleaming fish,
\n Or odd strains of shadow songs,
\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about it,
\n Golden daylight has no access here,
\n None at all,
\nBut there is a maybe sense of some horizon
\n Fluttering with light,<\/p>\n

A strange moth, dusty heavy wings, blank moth eyes,
\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s starting to lift,
\n I feel it in my shifting shoulders,
\n And I find myself back here
\n Trying to wake up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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