Aubade
By Ren Powell

1.

Intolerable

sharp light off frosted asphalt

Let the crow keep watch

2.

Uncertain as maids

green hovers over the birch—

Cherry blossoms blink

3.

The egret takes flight

fist against the morning's glare,

Then wide surrender

Ren Powell is the editor of Babel Fruit online journal, and the administrator of the protestpoems.org project. Her publishing credits include nine books of translations and two books of poetry. Her poems have been translated and published in Norwegian, French, Basque, Spanish and Croatian. Ren is currently pursuing a doctorate in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in England.

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