✨ New Every Morning

The day’s beauties draw near...

New Every Morning

—for Laura Brown

And look! It’s a new day with no mistakes in it yet,
leaves and lines and light
sluicing over the bookcase.

She climbs into the writer’s seat,
peace lily riding shotgun on a table
among daubs of urban orange.

She can’t help reporting

on what she has seen and heard,
her vision and pen
two bumblebees working the same thistle.

A drain rack of clean dishes.
Warm stack of folded laundry.
Toasty edges of cheddar crackers,
and Pittsburgh wound up
in a gauze of snow.

The day’s beauties draw near
as fragile as they depart:
an old woman’s face
rising out of a dab of suds,
adolescents marching
into the light of their moonrise drums.

Day is done, but morning

keeps breaking and breaking.
She tells us this, even when
we forget, even when we don’t want
to know. Like it
or not, it never gets old.
Even when light hits a dead end,
it finds a way out. 

—Tania Runyan

A found poem using lines from

Laura Lynn Brown

’s Facebook & Instagram gratitude posts. Used by permission of Tweetspeak Poetry. Tania Runyan is the author of How to Write a Poem: Based on the Billy Collins Poem “Introduction to Poetry.” Photo by Julian Hochgesang, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.