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A Portrait of Early Morning

April 7, 2011
By Heidi Schneider SILVER, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
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Cotton breezes under a washboard moon
and pale chapped hands in ribbon calluses.
Dawn-fresh dew, cold footprints

in sodden grass.
Alabaster skin in an abalone glow.
Purple, opaque sky and bruised shadows
scarred beyond the land, trees, and the far reaches

of nothing.

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