Nones
From The Cranes: A Book of Hours. 1996.
Three. the cardinal
moment of the afternoon.
Sun’s germ. rudiment
of seed, bud, psalm.
light sings through western rose, red
rims sedge, spills itself
on the box-wood, granite:
Cathedral-thurifer, Earth,
mountain, grass, glass, lead:
Inordinate gift.
Sunlit cycles closing in
a scarlet crown.
Used with the permission of Don Welch