Aubade Longing for a Nocturne
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Every single morning,
as the day begins with flocks of
birds waking and warbling along
the full length of
the sky’s horizon, all I
can carol about is how
many hours I’ve got to wait
to get to the bespeckled fantastic
night offers — a starry stage
set-designed new on
each occasion as if the display of
the universe does possess
the potential distance gives us —
a duration longer than
the amount the minutes are
wrong on my wound wristwatch.
Sometimes it’s fast, sometimes
it’s catching up from behind.
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Matt Zambito
Matt Zambito is the author of The Fantastic Congress of Oddities, as well as two chapbooks: Guy Talk and Checks & Balances. New poems are forthcoming in Tampa Review, Slipstream, Hiram Poetry Review, Freshwater Literary Journal, Sierra Nevada Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Niagara Falls, he has lived in Ohio, Idaho, Washington, and New York, where he now resides with his rescue dog, Sadie.
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