<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">In Broad Daylight</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I take my rage to the river.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">A heron flies into the wind.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">I let myself be opened</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">by the great gray wings</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">and the great gray sky</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">and the great gray largeness of water,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">not to rid myself of rage</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">but to become a clearer channel</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">to meet the chest-scouring,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">scab-clawing, cell-screaming,</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">throat-burning fury of rage</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">and remind my heart I can</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">know all this rage, can be</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">feral with rage and still</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;">keep on loving the world.</span><br style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 22px;"><br></span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer</span></div></div></div></body></html>