Daybreak at Pikes Creek [Summer of 2005]

Daybreak by Lake Superior
Rising out of the woods like:
A swamp mist
I’m waiting for breakfast


(at the B&B)
I pace the grounds
The scent of green shrubbery:
Trees, flora, flowers—rain 
Intoxicates me—
Branches like big brown arms
Descend…
The embankment, to the right
Blue eyed, like mine—reflect 
From the creek beneath me
(my wife says ‘be careful’
she went to get the camera)
The greens and blues touch
My face and blue jeans—
Reflections mirrored like 
Musical notes of a symphony
(I’ll see them later in pictures)
For now, it’s daybreak
In Minnesota.

#813 8/26/2005

Note: the author, Dennis Siluk, took his wife Rosa [me: on my birthday] to Lake Superior, this summer, and I adored the biggest lake in the world. We stayed at a Bed and Breakfast, just outside a few miles from Bayfield, Wisconsin. As we had gotten up for breakfast, we walked outside and into the woods in back of the B&B, and then back towards the Mansion [Pinehurst Inn], and discovered to the side of us was an embankment, and the poet, my husband, had to climb down the twenty feet to the Creek, and I took a picture of him gazing into the creek, a most captivating picture with all the reflections of daybreak in it. It will be used for the new book of poetry: “Peruvian Poems,” to be out next month. Rosa Peñaloza

Poet Dennis Siluk see his books at http://dennissiluk.tripod.com and his travels

• Blind Designs [a Poem] and a Note by Rosa on The Other Door


• Ole Bulky Jeeps & Paper, Ink and Rain [two Peoms]


• Infected Ideologies [a Poetic Portrait]


• Poetry and Popular Culture


• Wars, Air of Ambiguity [for: Lt. Laura Walker] in SPANISH and English


• Memoirs of a Wastelands Rim [a Poem: now in Spanish and English]


• Ceasar Vallejo: Black Roses [In English and Spanish]


• Grandpas House & From Iraq with Love [Two Poems]


• Uamaks Aquatic [suspense: now in Spanish and English]


• Breathing-in, Minnesota [a poem: now in Spanish and English]