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December in the morning Alberto Rios artwork | AZpoetry.com

2024

December Morning In The Desert

By Alberto Rios

On a cold Arizona morning, the speaker imagines the apparently silent stars as an enormous working machine whose unheard energy continues through birds, insects and other creatures while humans sleepily enter an ordinary Monday.