July 11*

Posted on July 11, 2011 by othermindpress

this place
this day
is like mercury

          held in the hand
          shimmering, bulbous

          a wobbling sphere
          of reflected light

                    of barely contained
energy

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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