Breezy Summer Morning

Poem by Jackie Chou

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The sun is coming out

of the shifting white clouds.
 
The sun is coming out,
instead of a fire-spitting mouth,
a piercing brown-eyed gaze.
 
The sun is neither angry nor sad,
just dragging its gold skirt 
to work the daytime shift.
 
Yet love,
I prefer your ice, your flame,
any time of the day or night,
over the sun's placid glare.

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Jackie Chou has published two collections of poetry by cyberwit, The Sorceress and Finding My Heart in Love and Loss.