April Halprin Wayland - Dear Whoever Composes the Sky

DEAR WHOEVER COMPOSES THE SKY
by
April Halprin Wayland

Hi.

I look up tonight at the black and the light
at the faint and the bright

I like how you do it.
I like what you've done.

I shiver. But I won't go inside.
I want to stay here, want to watch the stars quiver.

They're wallpaper, ceiling, they fill me with feeling
that this is what's real.

Just being out here
in the nippy night air—

you: way up there.
Me: way down here.

I came out to say hi.
And say thanks for this sky.

©2011 April Halprin Wayland. All rights reserved.

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Can we just all say "awwww!" Thank you. No, wait... not enough. I mean, can't you SEE the sky April Halprin Wayland is talking about here? And yet I know that what you're seeing isn't the same as what I'm seeing or what April was seeing. So let's add in an "Oooooooh" for that, too. Thank you.

I won't add any other sound effects, but I will direct you to April's poetry-month blog where she's writing a poem a day. It's well worth a read (as, I must add, is her prior contribution here - How To Read A Poem Aloud). Plus you could go out and pick up her award-winning picture book New Year at the Pier... or you can simply join me in a note to whoever composed the above poem and say "Fabulous!" Or all of the above! Yup, once again, I must say I'm thrilled to have April Halprin Wayland here as part of 30 Poets/30 Days.

Yesterday brought us Siguan by Joseph Bruchac. Tomorrow... Graham Denton with I Am Huffing, I Am Puffing. For more information on 30 Poets/30 Days and how to follow along, please click here.