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The Sun

The Sun

Impressionist painting of a rising sun
Before words
there would have been no difference
describable
between trees and their refreshing shade
birds and clouds of song    breeze and its caress
There must have been no separation
conscious
between the hunter and her prey
they were one and the same    as were
mountains, water, the wanderer
No need to explain
whorled white petals
an embedded thorn
fevered couplings
Radiating currents would have been enough
Before the gods spoke
distinction between earth and sky
was nothing more than untouchable distance
horizon and fire
an unquenchable sphere of golden coals
rekindled day after day