DM O'CONNOR - CUTTING MORNING

DM O'Connor is from a small village on Lake Huron. After many nomadic years, he is based in Albuquerque, where a short story collection progresses. He contributors monthly to; The Review Review and New Pages. His writing has appeared in; Barcelona Metropolitan, Collective Exiles, Across the Margin, Headland, Cecile's Writers, Bohemia, Fiction, After the Pause, The Great American Lit Mag (Pushcart nomination), The New Quarterly and The Guardian. He is Fiction Editor of The Blue Mesa Review Tweet: @dmoconnorwrites

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                            CUTTING MORNING
 


Opening that morning
grapefruit on a ship
 
climbing a tree I will
not get scurvy or go
 
hungry with coffee and
this sun there is hope
 
that nothing more is
needed at least not
 
today and the choice
to be happy in the day
 
the best part is the juice
on my fingers which I wipe
 
in my hair which I still
have full of salt and sap
 
as the sea ripples
the leaves bend
 
all childhood and love
in each simple spoon.