DAWN

A camera: a conceit to capture light.
The half light, cow bell, truck horn,
Crow call, dog fight, dark light
The schizophrenia of the dawn.

A morphine mist of meditation
A medication of patient wait
A weight of mind’s hesitation
As if the inevitable could abate.

The piercing light of creation
A herald who’s time has come.
An alchemy of epiphany from elation,
As the earth bows before the sun.