Short Skies

Passing Time

Maya Angelou

Your skin like dawn
Mine like dusk.

One paints the beginning
of a certain end.

The other, the end of a
sure beginning.

Water Piece

Yoko Ono

Steal a moon on the water with a bucket.
Keep stealing until no moon is seen on
the water.

To See the Summer Sky

Emily Dickinson

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie-
True Poems flee—