IN MY DREAMS I HEAR THE MATINS

by Lorraine Caputo

 
It rings once
            whispering
            in this predawn
            darkness
 
            not wanting
            to awaken
            anyone –
 
            only those
            for whom
            it is tolling
 
 
One clang …
            muffled by
            the night’s
            stillness …
 
Another clang …
            & now only
            the dark
            silence


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Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 400 journals on six continents; and 24 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.