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It’s the year’s first day.
I’m in the kitchen getting apples ready for baking.
The air smells of cinnamon.
I move to the porch to check the sun’s trajectory
and find you sitting in the day’s first sunlight.
In your hand is a hummingbird;
all rubies and emeralds.
You found her on the icy path by the solarium,
thought she was dead.
You’ve kept her warm, fed her sugar water;
now she can spread her wings.
You set up a feeder inside the solarium,
put her on a dried clematis branch.
Soon she’s flying. We open the door
and she sweeps toward life. The light.
© by Wendy Morton.
Used with the author’s permission.
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Wendy Morton believes poetry is the shortest distance between hearts. She's the author of six books of poetry, and a memoir, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, in which her adventures as a corporate sponsored poet are revealed. Her latest book of poetry, What Were Their Dreams, is a book of photo-poems of Canada's history. Wendy is the founder of Canada’s Random Acts of Poetry project and worked extensively on The Elder Project, earning a Meritorious Service Medal and the Order of British Columbia. In the midst of all that, she worked as an insurance investigator for more than 30 years. Wendy lives in Sooke, British Columbia, where she enjoys watching ravens.
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jeeger:
I love it when things get to fly again.
Posted 01/04/2016 10:09 PM
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Dorcas:
Lovely thought and vision for the beginning of the year.
Posted 01/04/2016 04:53 PM
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Lori Levy:
Beautiful first-day-of-the-year poem!
Love the picture it creates.
Posted 01/04/2016 01:13 PM
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Janet Leahy:
A wonderful moment in time captured so well in this poem.
Posted 01/04/2016 09:39 AM
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dmahoney:
It is starting to snow this morning.
Wendy's poem is a gem.
Posted 01/04/2016 08:47 AM
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mimi:
wonderful slice of life, Wendy!
Posted 01/04/2016 07:43 AM
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Michael:
What I like about this poem is its easy conversational tone. We are in a chair, Wendy is at work and simply talking to us. Much to like about this poem.
Michael Escoubas
Posted 01/04/2016 07:36 AM
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rhonasheridan:
Loved it - loved the photo also. Today is a very bleak Monday
That little poem brightened it a lot
Posted 01/04/2016 05:04 AM
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