Shay’s Word Garden — Word List 7 — (Langston Hughes) Dawn Jazz

Dawn Jazz Landlord of Clocks tick-tocks through my dreams, raining salt on an untamed parade of roses that claw and scrabble towards respite moon. Oh, Lord! I grow weary of the climb; my midnight skin bleeds. Oh, their thorns! yet their faces carry me on, glowing red each dawn. This poem is dedicated both to…