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A Gray Dawn


The gray dawn slaughters
the promise of spring,
a desperate last goodbye

 



Its poisonous haze mocks
a sky forsaken,
the sun again denied

 

 

Its blanket lowers
in a shroud of judgment,
whose verdict darkly stained

 



To deluge its exit
in torrents of thunder
—as light reflects in vain

 



(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

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