Another Day

Light rises around the sheltering house
Weaves reality from dreams
Draws breath from bruised lips
Nudges us into the familiar
Another day!
Anything is possible, if not probable
Water boils, coffee
Brews, bread
Browns, butter
Goes bad, milk
Sours, paper’s late again
Our resolve to continue
Mimics the worm’s drive to
Wriggle through wet earth until a beak
Snatches it away
No beak for us
We’ve already been taken
Already surrendered

Photo by Marco Antonio Casique Reyes on Unsplash

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Anne Leigh Parrish is an award-winning author of fourteen books. Her work has won many honorable awards such as: 2021 Story Circle Sarton Award Finalist 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner 2020 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List 2020 Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention, General Fiction Category 2017 Maxy Awards, Best Fiction Winner 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal Winner Anne Leigh Parrish’s new novel, The Hedgerow, appears in July 2024 from Unsolicited Press. Diary of a False Assassin, her next poetry collection, will arrive in December 2024, also from Unsolicited Press. Recent titles are A Summer Morning, a novel; An Open Door, a novel, and If The Sky Won’t Have Me, a poetry collection. She is the author of ten other books. She has recently ventured into the art of photography and lives in the South Sound Region of Washington State. Find her online at her website, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. Explore her photography at www.laviniastudios.com.

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