LITMIR.BIZ

      The Sunrise Liturgy

      A Poem Sequence

      Copyright © 2012 Mia Anderson. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      for Tom, twin, always

      and for Rowan

      Caveat lector

      Over and over.

      You have entered this life?

      Be warned.

      Over and over the sun.

      You grew up perhaps

      with the cow [jumped]

      over the moon.

      This is different. Here you will find

      the sunrise liturgy.

      Here you will find things repeating themselves.

      Even first times repeat themselves

      as first times.

      You think all this

      iterating iteration is a version of

      hell? It is heaven

      for those for whom it is heaven.

      Things don’t come clearer.

      We are two species

      the hell species and the heaven species.

      I don’t say we can’t inhabit both.

      We have dual citizenship.

      I just wanted to warn you.

      This is the sunrise liturgy and mostly it is heaven.

      This is for those for whom it is heaven.

      Readable but not read

      Dayspring : you before

      at spring of day, at first

      jump of sun using the horizon as a spring-board.

      Or the spring-board itself.

      Or an invite to a Jump-Up.

      Or day’s season of beginnings — daily freshening source

      of wave or particle.

      ‘The night has passed and the day lies open before us….’

      Start of every morning. Day like a book flat on its spine

      pages to left of you pages to right

      wide

      open

      readable but not read.