DISSOLVING INTO THE SILENCE

by Lorraine Caputo

 
Again this morning
I awoke too quickly
 
I tried to gather
the fraying threads
the tenuous chords
of my dreams
 
but already they had
dissolved
into the predawn
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.