Rodd Whelpley manages an electric efficiency program for 32 cities across Illinois and lives near Springfield. He is the author of the chapbooks Catch as Kitsch Can (2018) and The Last Bridge is Home (coming in 2021). He sets the alarm for 4:30 and writes before work, so he has often seen the final bit of night and the line of birds who sit in a row at the apex of his neighbor’s roof, like a pew of monks praying up the sun. This poem seeks to explore how each morning each being wakes with such a different anticipation of his or her place in the world and what the day might promise.
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