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One Morning, While You Slept

Jen Helmer

I was running before you woke.
Serpentine and sodden streets.  
Branches bowing down
Humble, heavy with rain
Strong-backed, rooted ancients.
Seeing over the soaking canopy,
A hawk challenges the sun.  
The trees, the hawk, the resting rain
Emblems of calm existence
Knowing all, or not knowing.
My sneakers slipped on asphalt.
A deer, sure-footed, startled me.
I was thinking of other things.  
I was home before you woke.  
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Submitted by 11jen.helmer on June 20, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGDHIJFKA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 427
Words 77
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
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