Aubades ii

the sun seemed tethered by night

the sun seem tethered by night as it uneasily made daylight

the two on the bench facing the fjord looked across to the island

where a cow was birthing, the sound carried through their sleep

now the argument about children had a focus for resentment"

bloody cow" she said, the conception of which was it was now

or never, he rathered it would wait, as the gulls in the lathered

shorewake swept by, he thought the two could manage nicely

but she was upset, it was coming to a conclusion as the moon set

behind the rays of the sun, its disc shape phasing, then gone

they sat as a fisher boat puttered across, their relationship fluttered

from being on hold, from finished, he made one final effort

then she got up, hurt that he could not commit his life to hers

so it was the sun brought the dawn of what had been unsaid.