Sunrise, 2/1/20, Oakland, California, by Eric Kupers

Sunrise 7:13 AM. 2/1/20 Oakland, California A feather-down mattress of birdsong
Offered freely
For all of us

Lay down in this sound flood
Let it embrace your exhausted body
Sinking, sinking, sinking
Into feathered love

“Remember, remember, remember,”
Calls ancestor bird
“Remember the root of it all.
The light comes, and the light goes.
We sing it so.”

--Eric Kupers