• Poetry

    Light Year by Regina DiPerna

    April 13, 2020 /

    “Rat. Pearl. Onion. Honey. These colors came before the sun lifted above the ocean, bringing light alike to mortals and immortals.” – Homer, The Iliad

    Under rat-colored sky,
    a window swings open

    its sash, floods the other
    side of the world

    with cold light,
    the not yet of dawn;

    nets full of stars recede,
    become bare slats

    of blue between cedars,
    fewer magpies than before,

    fewer feathers loose
    in grey air.

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