Morning Light

Morning Light Step forth this day Past the yellow fig leaves Enormous and bright at their fall - Past the tall pines Letting down the early sun. Before you turn to go, look back At the leaves in the golden light. You too are in sight of the fall, Holding on each day in the dim chamber G-d has given you. Soon,very soon He will take you out, And for the first time in years That will not matter, The early light of morning Will gild your inner world As - always - it has graced your outer.

Swift Express

, Swift Express A messenger arrived swift express This morning mild October day - It sat on the wire above the fence Having its aerial say. Above the fence that divides my wall From sky and endless space, It sang out for all its worth A full ten minutes away. I stood amazed, unmoving in my place - What a lot of little noise In such a record-breaking stay! It seemed a call flung forth For better skies than ours scored thick With cries in minor key - Why else, when song was further From my life than sound is lost at sea, Did it arrive post haste and sing So long before it flew away?