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Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays



   

loosened rain all that drooling water I couldn’t imagine this
landscape after the desert the sun this morning everyone
said how nice to see the sun creep over we’d been talking
about imagination we talked
through the night into morning this was
a vacation a finding of self and throughout this big
house which is supple
through the night into morning this was
reverence for various leaf patterns and living processes all of it
supple from storm and sputtering moisture various
people here ruffling gazes and drippings and fretwork it is
twenty five days now of storm and nesting moisture
to make some conclusions we drag open the windows to
theories a series of experiments the gradual warming and want
some conclusions we drag open the windows to
see the sun creep over we’d been talking about imagination we talked
over loosened rain I couldn’t imagine this



Lauren Camp serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of eight books of poetry, including In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024). She has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute. In 2022, she was Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. She is the recipient of a Dorset Prize and finalist for the Arab American Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic.  www.laurencamp.com