White Pink Morning
Brandon Cook
I believe, as I read the poet this morning, that the bluebird and the white pink morning of which she sings (both the poet and the bluebird) were specific things
Or moments, at least
But removed as I am from her pen and memory, the specific things I cannot see
Which ends up far better for me:
Sitting on my couch, for just a moment I am lifted through my mind to every place ever graced by a pink
morning
To Albuquerque, perhaps, or Maine
I cannot see all the names, shrouded as they are in secrets
As if around us some reality is waiting to come crashing down on top of us
Beautifully, like the heaving of a waterfall, which will not reveal all
Still, we feel its water certainly inside us
But maybe, too, she had no place in view when she wrote those words
Maybe there was no white pink morning and no bluebird and just an inner eye seeing and beating with the hidden heart of the world
I do not know
But I feel we are heading downstream together, still
To a bright pink morning
As long as we don’t get bogged down with too many things
Or even with our own healing
When the bright blue world and its pink mornings are an endless springtime balm
So willing to hold and sooth and calm us all
As we rise like the sun, not quite sure where we are
As the long day of knowing finally dawns