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Carlos Reyes
An Italian Song
Umbrella, little shadow, certainly ironic here
The sky closed
Down January
Spread over us
Its black umbrella
Each day the search
For pin holes
In the canopy
More desperate
Our only hope
A quick peek
At real sky
A wink
The sun's eye
Through dark
Silk fabric
To awaken first
Our senses then
Light our way
Through the rest
Of day's night
Winter's rain
The rest of the year

Carlos Reyes won the Bluestem Poetry Award for A Suitcase Full of Crows. His other books include
The Prisoner, The Shingle Weaver's Journal, and Nightmarks. (See the same list of books at Powells.com) He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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