Meditation for the Silence of Morning by Adam Clay

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 24, 2016   Meditation for the Silence of Morning   Adam Clay

I wake myself imagining the shape of the day and where I will find   myself within it. Language is not often in that shape,   but sentences survive somehow through the islands of dark matter,   the negative space often more important than the positive.   Imagine finding you look at the world completely different upon waking one day.   You do not know if this is permanent. Anything can change, after all,   for how else would you find yourself in this predicament or this opportunity,   depending on the frame? A single thought can make loneliness seem frighteningly new.   We destroy the paths of rivers to make room for the sea.            Copyright © 2016 Adam Clay. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “This poem considers the clean slate of the morning and where the mind goes before a day begins. A thought, like a river, eventually leads to the sea, though eventually the sea can overtake the very thing that’s created it.” —Adam Clay   Adam Clay is the author of Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016). He teaches at the University of Illinois Springfield. Poetry by Clay   Stranger (Milkweed Editions, 2016) "Love in the Morning" by Annie Finch "The Sea Is History" by Derek Walcott "6th separation meditation" by David Antin Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038