[New-Poetry] Morning Sonnet

[Halvard Johnson]

Morning Sonnet

Daylight preening before the mirror, the lonely
planet planned its morning. Incantations mixed
with imprecations on the dance floor. Beyond all
doubt, our bathroom facilities could be improved.

Next door to us, South Ossetians have moved in,
still living on borrowed Russian time, dancing
their troikas and korobushkas, both fast and slow,
all night long. Silent and invisible, Brenda

writes her letters, even knowing full well that
her Guantánamo pen-pals will never write back.
Brenda tells them of the ancient mound builders
who once lived near her home in Kentucky.

Night-dreamers wake to find all was vanity. Day-
dreamers turn out to be truly dangerous.



Hal

Halvard Johnson
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