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title: 'before the sun'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/before-the-sun'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/before-the-sun.md'
date: '2005-04-23'
description: 'i step outside into a breeze too raw for spring still tinged by the melting snow. in a day or two the last whiteness will be gone and the air will blunt with warmth. i take in my arms birch wood. an easy burn in the days of lengthened light and i wonder toward nights soon to come. warmer nights whe…'
taxonomy:
  category:
    - Journal
  tag:
    - poetry
    - writing
---

# before the sun

## [before the sun](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/before-the-sun)

    23rd Apr 2005   [poetry](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:poetry#body-wrapper) [writing](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:writing#body-wrapper)  

i step outside into a breeze too raw for spring still tinged by the melting snow.

in a day or two the last whiteness will be gone and the air will blunt with warmth.

i take in my arms birch wood.

an easy burn in the days of lengthened light

and i wonder toward nights soon to come.

warmer nights where the smells of birch, ash, and oak, will mingle with sage and sweat.

and i will see you in the dim light before the sun.

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