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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.

A slice of horizon with a lid of sky on a plate of water

le fleuve, ever-moving, flowing towards

the read pages, away

from the unread

ever-passing, time’s model.

Your eye, reading. Horizon a blink

the far shore the eye-lid with its lashes, the near shore the lower lashes

you the pupil in the middle

at your paedeia, scanning, duty at its delight the Other Book before, learner

with your beginner’s licence, blink, and the colour has changed

like a carousel of old-fashioned slides, blink, and the flame

has gone rose, the rose peach, the peach

gold, the gold ivory and luminous cream, and then —

Brother Sun has sprung

pop-up jack-in-the-biodegradable-box of night

coming up from down-under

gasping for air as he clears the watery fleuve.

The people that walked in darkness, or stumbled from bed to bath or

wandered sleepless groping for texts like capsules

have seen a great light, Brother Sun leaping like a Lord

the sun of righteousness arising

my! — but

that Charles Wesley could sing!

‘Christ, whose glory fills the skies’ can you hear the tune?

‘Dayspring

from on high, be near;/ Day-star,

in my heart appear.’

Almost 200 years of it flowing by

no one dipping in the same tune twice

the same always anew.

Like the light.

Liturgy : the solemn procession

of numinous vapour off the fleuve festooning the minus 35 degrees

as it glides downstream

an armada dedicated to self-annihilation

in the Sol Glorianus :

Christ whose glory fills the skies, Light from Light.

Dayspring : the time of first take on ‘the fair glory’

linking the light within with the light without.

The people who walked without light

have seen a great light.

And eaten it

with their eyes.

Day within.