Brightness warmth
sow soothing sun,
clouds with independence
form their own places in the sky,
high haze qualifies the blue.
Warm not hot
near perfect gift
from late April.
What will May bring,
and then June?
Days like these pull the year together
through repetition
and mild differences.
They also set the stage
for very different days
which add their furnishings
their different actors
their more dramatic scripts
that strain the themes and the structure
of the surrounding narrative.
But today these can only be imagined.
This day is steady and beautiful
it builds resilience
the capacities to embrace,
endure, and enjoy
those other states
that push the limits of life.
Aaltoe's Blog 
April 28, 2021 at 11:07 am |
what a sky, what a poem. “days like these pull the year together through repetition and mild differences” evokes a feeling of steadiness and continuity that is sometimes elusive at the worst of times, but those sunsets…still embedded in my mind from last summer…evoke this feeling for me, and are still now just as fresh in many ways as they were then.