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The early light reflects the short gray hairs<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n among the brown, and still he\u2019s just a boy<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n of twenty-five, who rises slowly, turns<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n to stare down at the bed where she coils<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n asleep, the dreamless sleep that only comes<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n on nights when he has filled her up with rain.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n He brought it with him out of Dublin slums,<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n to blanket California hills in gray <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n soft shrouds. He waits for gold to turn to green.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n He lingers over tea and toast until<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n he\u2019s read the Times. Packing his bag to leave;<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n he has no ties to things that keep her still<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0beneath their weight \u2015 a job, this house, her car.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0It\u2019s almost Christmas, and Ireland\u2019s not so far.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0***<\/p>\n Trina Gaynon is a graduate of the M.F.A. writing program at the University of San Francisco. She currently volunteers in Los Angeles with WriteGirl, providing workshops and mentors for young women in high school who are interested in writing, and works with a literacy program in her community. Recently, her poems have appeared in Natural Bridge, Runes, 26, Southeast Review and the anthology Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront and Yemassee. She says, \u201cMy deeply divided personality moves back and forth between writing sonnets, a way of exploring what I have to say, and more experimental work, a way of exploding into what I need to say.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This sonnet is pre-published with the permission of the Editor-in-chief from:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Richard Vallance, editor-in-chief. The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Anthology of sonnets of the early third millennium = Le Ph\u00e9nix renaissant de ses cendres : Anthologie de sonnets au d\u00e9but du troisi\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire. Friesen Presse, Victoria, B.C., Canada. \u00a9 2013. approx. 240 pp. ISBN Hardcover: 978-1-4602-1700-9 Price: $28.00 Paperback: 978-1-4602-1701-6 Price: $18.00 e-Book: 978-1-4602-1702-3 Price: TBA<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 300 sonnets & ghazals in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Persian.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 30 sonnets in this anthology are to be pre-published by our permission in Poetry Life & Times (UK) which has exclusive sole rights prior to the publication of the anthology itself. Readers may also contact Richard Vallance, Editor-in-Chief, at: vallance22@gmx.com for further information. <\/span>http:\/\/vallance22.hpage.com\/<\/span><\/strong><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/pre>\n