Slipping past the pyramid in Memphis at dawn.
Moving toward the full moon as the quiet dark waters of the Mississippi rush underneath my wheels.
Early morning.
At sunrise, the water is smooth as glass.
A jet airplane rises through the morning air.
Morning purple as a crushed rose.
The river as calm as glass.
Quiet as sleep.
The sky and her twin, the river, run toward the horizon.
Where the river touches the sky, she blushes and the dawn comes.
Michael Skinner has written a book of poems called
Liquid Mirror: Waiting on the New Moon.
The book is divided into four sections.
Wanderlust speaks to restless travels of a wandering minstrel.
Dawn Warriors is a celebration of the break of day.
Screaming Over the Liquid Mirror refers to the cries of sea birds as they ply the intercostal waterways of Eastern Florida.
Waiting on the New Moon is a collection of love poems.
Every day I drive into a technicolor sunrise.
Such is daybreak at the Eastern Edge of the world.
I must cross two rivers before I reach the sea. Each river is spanned by thin web of steel and concrete.
I work a stone's throw from the ocean and I gauge the tempo of the day by the colors of the sea.
A dark blue sea portends a calm day.
A green sea speaks of storms to come. a slate gray sea: the storm is here.
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I wake beside the wide blue waters
which suffer me to drink them in
and sweat out bird song and mirrored clouds.
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Lakes like chips of ice scattered across the face of the city.
Each a shattered mirror piece of an open sky.
Kayakers slipping past the shore into the morning calm.
As the sun struggles to rise the peace is broken
the wind rises and the water's calm belongs to past.
A thousand wavelets break the mirror into ever tinier pieces
until at last there is no more reflection.
But the morning breeze brings cool relief after the
sticky heat of a tropical summer.
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Blessings folded over and pasted in a scrapbook
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27 July 2007
Steps in the dark
a black pool calls
and I go to it.
Seeking the embers hidden there
for the night is still and breezeless
and the vast pool unmoving
and the lights of silent house are captured by a black mirror.
A moonless summer night.
Humid air wet as a kiss.
Dawn like crushed petals on the horizon.
She artfully rises revealing fire and clouds
and white egrets skimming over the liquid mirror.
A fresh wake from a slow, fat boat
rocks the rushes against the shores
and bobs the ducks up and sown
and dips the head of ancient turtle in and out of the drink.
