Viewed from a hotel lobby
20 feet of plate glass window
It is a few moments before dawn
a dark grey sky is fading
replaced by a softer
Blue
reflected off a line of skyscrapers
a shade lighter than the river next to it
darker than several blocks of a parallel walkway
Soon, the sun will rise
a soft yellow first then
other colours will appear
But not yet
I have this moment
a few minutes at best,
when the city pauses midstep, bathed in a single color
halfway between night and new day