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every morning
January 31, 2021
she wakes to the rings
of ripe tangerines
she dusts off August
from her heart’s rust
when her beloveds
bloom in her vacant eyes
and walk, with grace,
from her vibrant past.
she weeps a little
she celebrates them all
the entire enamoring fall.
© Shuci Z., Los Angeles, California
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Shuci Z. is a poet, guilty feminist, and high school sophomore. She indulges in literature, art, environmental & social advocacy, and metamodernist sentiments, but also spares time to feed her newly developed addiction to comedy news. Shuci dreams to make Spaceship Earth a stronger world and write poems about the moon in Cappadocia, Turkey, presumably in a hot air balloon.
This poem is a gentle kiss-goodbye to the past in the dewy possiblities of the morning, when life is revitalized in the daily ceremony of breathtaking gratitude.