But Never This

Break Of Day, November 16, 2024

But Never This

As sun comes up it bodes free the roses
of light's mystery and then it explodes 
gold on the eastern horizon it owns,
retracts the red from sky it leaves pale blue,

the overarching dome that will be day
that it climbs before it descends, performs
the parallel ceremony of light
that is its uncanny drop into night

the light of the sun bo…