[Sun-messenger]
Sun-messenger
call Life
to me
slowly
and all at
once criss-
crossing in that golden
light
Snail
with your moving shroud
Silver tree
with your thousand roadways
O dream
hurry
go past me
Copyright © 2023 by Lynn Xu. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 27, 2023, by the Academy of American Poets.