Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove
Sunrise Gold Lit Seeps
Sunrise gold lit seeps
Bacon sizzles in the pan
Coffee served with toast
Breakfast’s ready a voice calls
Wake up wake up lazy bones
Rita Dove (1952 -), American poet, writer, and teacher and poet laureate of the United States (1993–95).
The book heralded the start of long and productive career, and it also announced the distinctive style that Dove continues to develop in works like the verse-novel Thomas and Beulah (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999) and Sonata Mulattica (2009).
Poem Attribution © Rita Dove, Dawn Revisited
Source Attribution https://muse.jhu.edu/article/5950
Photo Attribution Fred Viebahn, Rity Dove, 2004
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Tanka Attribution © Goff James, Sunrise Gold Lit Seeps
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Painting Attribution © Erin Hanson, Crystall Hills, (Date Unstated)
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Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove
Imagine you wake up
with a second chance: The blue jay
hawks his pretty wares
and the oak still stands, spreading
glorious shade. If you don’t look back,
the future never happens.
How good to rise in sunlight,
in the prodigal smell of biscuits—
eggs and sausage on the grill.
The whole sky is yours
to write on, blown open
to a blank page. Come on,
shake a leg! You’ll never know
who’s down there, frying those eggs.
If you don’t get up and see.
Bio Reference Attribution https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rita-dove
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