A STORY. 29. GRAY MORNING

Why go past

eight o'clock
            the best time
            the very best time

Especially, why go from the best time to Gray Morning?

You sit there, in the comfortable old armchair, MOMENTS on your lap. You know why you’re turning to Gray Morning. Because you feel like it. You’ve turned the page, and there it is in front of you.

Anyway you have nothing against gray mornings, or even gray days, as long as you’re snug and warm.

So you start reading:

https://elsasemporium.com/gray-morning.html

can there be a greeting?
  can there be a meeting?
           not just a yawning
           day just past dawn
                    on this gray gray morning

can there be a greeting?
  can there be a meeting?
           like for a sunrise
           on a high plateau

You laugh a little. This is someone so very different from yourself.

can there be a greeting?
  can there be a meeting?

What a question. It’s definitely not someone who rather enjoys gray mornings.

I could be sleeping
my eyelids meeting
           if I'd stayed home

even the dog is napping
while daylight is wrapping
           grayness 'round my bones

You shudder at the thought of grayness wrapping itself around your bones.

All the same …

indoor light is warming
  me to this morning
           more than to a sunrise
           on a cold plateau

It sounds like the I-hate-gray-mornings person is beginning to enjoy the morning.

indoor light is warming
  me to this morning

to my inside waking
my inner daylight breaking
while outside a greeting
outside a meeting

          on this gray morning

                   light dawning

Gray Morning. It’s exactly the right poem for today. Especially the ending:

but tomorrow
maybe
I'll stay home

tomorrow
maybe
I'll be sleeping

This is not someone who will chose to be up on a lot of gray mornings.

As for yourself, you are in a very good mood. No particular reason. You don’t turn the page. You will do that tomorrow. Though who knows …

tomorrow
maybe
I'll stay home

tomorrow
maybe
I'll be sleeping

To be continued …
A STORY. 30. THE AUTHOR COMES BACK. URGENCY
https://elsaiselsa.substack.com/p/a-story-30-the-author-comes-back-urgency

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Posted April 11, 2024