Now and Almost Now
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Under oblique dawn-light, cars glow, and a paper,heavy with yesterday, reposes on the walk.A boy plodding toward an impending busquickens to a differential jog. Already golden,the lenient morning sunlight starts to hardenaround a summer tanager eclipsedby reddening oaks, a few leaves already goldenthemselves. The door, then the storm door, creak open,the hinges' high note lower than the summer tanager's. [End Page 273]
Andrew Hudgins
Andrew Hudgins is the author of American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) and a professor at Ohio State University.
