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It Was Just Thinking

By Nate Pritts
Poetry•Ghosts - Vol. XVII No. 1 (2014)

They each were a glass breaking.
The size of two hummingbirds.

My feelings about the morning.
I was looking at the light

& getting it confused with some other
light. I knew the answer

to every question was written down

somewhere, folded away
so that I could see only that it was there.

I have a picture of a picture
that I refer to when there isn’t enough sun.

On those days I let my heart wallow.
It often collapses. Each shift of the sun

indicates something. I have it programmed
to let me know that time is passing.

Nate Pritts
Nate Pritts is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Right Now More Than Ever (H_NGM_N 2013). His poetry and prose have been widely published, both online and in print, in such journals as Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Passages North, Court Green, and Gulf Coast. In 2001, he founded H_NGM_N, an online journal and small press, and serves as its director. He lives in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.

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