the gospel of the morning breeze

the morning breeze is
somehow
cool and warm
and I get it through
an open window only by some inches
so I could have missed it
but
it blew while I was
near and so I got the benefit
even of an easy paradox
to go with the pairs of contradictions
that
don’t go over gently
not at all

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photo by Smithsonian on Unsplash
Henry Ossawa Tanner, “Mary”