Mark Kaplon

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Daylight

(Cinquain)

 

Day comes
and the sun floods
the earth under a pool
of its influence— gone now are
the electric
night stars.

Mark Kaplon is a Hawaiian farmer and poet living on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island. More of his short-form poems are forthcoming this summer in Ribbons, Atlas Poetica, and Four and Twenty.