"You hear the sun in the morning"
You hear the sun in the morning
through closed shutters. As you sleep
the early sky is colored
in fish scales, and you open your eyes
like a street
already lined with fruit.
Copyright Credit: "You hear the sun in the morning" from Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems by Daniel Nadler. Copyright © 2016 by Daniel Nadler. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. https://us.macmillan.com/fsg/