Submitted by Joan McNerney
It is the white hour
between deep night and soft dawn.
Even the wren stares.
About the Poet
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days. Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work. Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky and she has four Best of the Net nominations.
Painting: A Misty Morning – Charles James
Vita Brevis Press. 
Beautiful. These transition times can be magical.
I like how the cutting word can be considered to be at either the end of the first line or at the end of the second line.
A pause in time, when all is absolutely serene.
So much packed in those three lines