Then a New One Flies

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a day lifts off on an Atlas booster
a rage of clouds marks its rise
to accompaniment of orchestral thunder
into sea-blue skies

….. it heads up from under

a distant song of a crowing rooster’s
daybreak cries— a day slips by
of routine and wonder
of joys and sighs
triumphs and blunders
lows and highs

….. and ends back under

(then a new one flies)

Jim Culleny
4/16/20