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Green morning
rinsing the canister
of our dusty vacuum
cleaner I am
footprints in water
vapor,
forgotten or—
forgetting something
important.
It’s Labor Day.
Lili sweeps out the drive
way while I walk
our sunlit children
shadowed by mosquitoes.
Emptied canister. Forgotten
memory.
Green morning
rinses through me.
By Cameron Morse
Cameron Morse is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His latest is The Thing Is (Briar Creek Press, 2021). He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City—Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife Lili and (soon, three) children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.