New Mercies
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The gray gentleness of sunrisecatches in the sparse trees.Dew scallops shorn grassand mixes with oil
in the parking-lot puddles.Don’t give way to dayjust yet—let the heavy bodiesand their furious heartbeats
sleep a little longer; let the birdsannounce the dawn lavishing itselfon slow cows, fragile antennae,car hoods and fence posts
and, far off somewhere,a brisk ocean recreating the shoreunder the lidded eyeof an October moon. [End Page 239]
Sarah Grigg
Sarah Grigg graduated from the University of Virginia and is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Florida. She is delighted by the Psalms, Russian novels, coffee, kiwis, and most trees. sag9u@virginia.edu
