September 27, 2013

Päivi

Days

What I admire most about days
Is their immaculate sense of timing.

They appear
inevitably
at first light

Eke themselves out slowly
over noon

Then edge surefootedly
toward evening

To bow out
at the very soupçon
of darkness.

Spot on cue, every time.

Roger McGough

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