Slowness Thankfulness overspills from the gold Rim and royal purple of this day’s low Dawning. On the din of not yet un- Differentiated clamor of clouds stray Marbling streaks. None of it could be Eyed head-on, no scald for nakedly Receiving day, almost before it’s so Launched. Slowness becomes our Dictum.
G. E. Schwartz, former senior researcher for the New York State Assembly, lives on the banks of the Genesee River, Upstate New York. He is the author of Only Others Are (LEGIBLE PRESS), THINKING IN TONGUES (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press), Odd Fish (Argotist Press), Murmurations (Foothills Press), and The Very Light We Reach for (LEGIBLE PRESS), and has work in or forthcoming in Dappled Things, America Magazine, Dakota Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, Comstock Review, Talisman, etc.
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