A Dawn Walk with My Dog
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I stopped this morning
While walking my good dog in
October’s chill
And darkness so still
That the quiet when the gravel
No longer crunched beneath my feet
Opened up a vastness before me.
I stood then, we did,
With our perfect view eastward,
Gazing into the silence
And the mysteries of the dawn.
And before us, out of darkness,
Out of emptiness, the big bang of
Morning began,
And the line of silent grey steel
Slowly made the world real once more.
Although there was no sound,
The world there was less silent
And the steel added light rose,
Then oranges, then reds
And the few starlings expressed
Their appreciation.
Once more I gratefully saw
That miraculous furnace
That flawless sphere
That splendid power
Appear and appear and appear
And reinvent the world
Once more.