Tim Bellows
Sunday Before We Dress


Talk to me while first sunlight points
through these drowsy bodies. The cat’s
curled, alert, staring with

low eyes out of his pool of sun. Tell me
the warmer dreams you made,

walking toward our light-sharp windows. Tell
what’s new under sleep while we look
into leaves that grow drunk with brightness outside.

While the neighbors’ roofs are still smug.
Let’s fill ourselves - as the wind starts up -

with the damp anticipation of maples.
Come fall together,
wavering, made of light,

into their million eyes - while the cat
stares hard at the air.

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Tim Bellows All Rights Reserved 

Also by Tim Bellows:

 

  Sunday Before We Dress  

Worker 
Contemplation- Sleep, Rain, Ballpoints

 Asking My Lover In The Long
Narrow Leaves