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Revelators

I.

Dawn always.

The first taste (and, okay, also the aftertaste)
of dark chocolate.

The undersides of leaves
blown back
when the wind blows leaves silver,
then slack.

Eyes that care for you.
Eyes that reflect a light you had not known
you carried.

II.

But why, I ask myself,
in this poem that moves
among the revelations of dawn
and the back-leafing
of silver,
do you keep in
the chocolate?
You who never eats
chocolate–

All I can think of
is how sweetness
must always be
re-learned–how else
can some of us remember
the recognizing of it?

And of a treat
I was sometimes given as a child–a bonanza,
it was called–ice cream haloed
by bananas in a swim
of dark and shiny–
and of how that hot fudge sheen,
lathered by crenellated cream,
is now a palpable layer
in my father’s remembered smile,
as if he sometimes spoke
in Sundae.

And though this memory is surely–if anything is–
an aftertaste, this poem is not
about comfort food but about whatever pools
in the spoon of the senses,
lighting an opening
that your caught, dim, heart
might some day
sight–

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A poem of sorts for Marian Kent’s prompt on Real Toads based on a song by Gillian Welch called Time (The Revelator).  Another one that should probably end at the first stanza.  The pic above is of dawn looking out over Central Park in good old NYC.  The bottom pic an old one, made by me.