{"id":1125,"date":"2007-12-14T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2007-12-14T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T15:53:17","slug":"daylight-effect-by-joseph-balaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/daylight-effect-by-joseph-balaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Effect by Joseph Balaz"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAYLIGHT EFFECT<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
With each sip of coffee<\/span>
the wide picture window<\/span>
frames a transcendence of hues<\/span>
as the dominion of the moon<\/span>
yields to the clarity of light.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Soft shading<\/span>
and contrast<\/span>
resembling the impulsive strokes<\/span>
from a painter\u2019s brush and palette.<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Observing                 <\/span>
and looking back in<\/span>
through the open window<\/span>
 <\/span>
another day begins<\/span>
 <\/span>
as easy and simplistic<\/span>
as a thought<\/span>
turned in upon itself<\/span>
 <\/span>
finding portholes of recognition.             <\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
Eyes that were wild<\/span>
in the chase and the frenzy<\/span>
receive the reflective gaze<\/span>
and ponder a deep tributary<\/span>
left in the timeless grasp<\/span>
and final thrust<\/span>
of a fervent duality.<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
The blackness<\/span>
held no secrets<\/span>
and the dark<\/span>
whispered only sighs.<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
In remembering<\/span>
the seclusion of two silhouettes<\/span>
traversing the night<\/span>
 <\/span>
another sip of coffee is taken<\/span>
and a returning participant<\/span>
settles into a comfortable recliner<\/span>
like a timber wolf<\/span>
reposing in a field of plush grass\u2014<\/span>
 <\/span>
With legs outstretched<\/span>
and two feet resting upright<\/span>
an adventurous heart quietly howls<\/span>
at the reminiscent image of the moon.<\/span>


\u2022 Joseph Balaz lives in northeast Ohio.  He is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry www.joebalaz.com<\/a>  He is also coauthor, with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis, of JOMA-online www.jomaonline.com<\/a> an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography. <\/span>
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DAYLIGHT EFFECT  With each sip of coffeethe wide picture windowframes a transcendence of huesas the dominion of the moonyields to the clarity of light. Soft shadingand contrastresembling the impulsive strokesfrom a painter\u2019s brush and palette.  Observing                 and looking back inthrough the open window another day begins as easy and simplisticas a thoughtturned in upon itself finding portholes of recognition.               Eyes that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}