Dawn/Dusk

by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios

Dawn/Dusk

om
tiny
blaze
in squash
blossom sea
fire in Ferrari-
red maples flutter
scarlet cardinal wing
the promise of coffee &
toast in tenderness staining
everything it touches: kitchen
table your clean shirt hem of my
dress raven call to prayer the shape
winding slow dancing in fog honey in
my hair in hyacinths singing up daylight

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my hair in hyacinths singing up daylight
winding slow dancing in fog honey in
dress raven call to prayer the shape
table your clean shirt hem of my
everything it touches kitchen
toast in tenderness staining
the promise of coffee &
scarlet cardinal wing
red maples flutter
fire in Ferrari-
blossom sea
in squash
blaze
tiny
om

Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios‘ award winning chapbook, Special Delivery, was published in the spring of 2016.  Nominated for a Pushcart award for 2019, she has poems published in various anthologies including Stories of Music, Love Notes from Humanity, Hudson Review, Poeming Pidgeon, Passager, NILVX, Unsplendid, Scissors and Spackle and the American Journal of Poetry. She is a Professor Emerita from American University, artistic director of the Redwoods Opera in Mendocino, California, and has spent much of her life performing as a singing artist across Europe and the United States.