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* ǝuoʎɹǝʌǝ sɹǝqᴉɹɔsqns pᴉɐd ɹoɟ ɯǝod puɐ oʇoɥd puoɔǝs

[oƃɹɐqɯǝ ɹɐǝʎ-ǝuo ɐ ƃuᴉʍolloɟ pǝllɐʍʎɐdun]

sunrise as culmination of patient watchfulness of carefully balancing and editing the sky to let it be what it simply is perfection in the moment’s pause

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be patient like the trees | deliverance is at hand | these days we seem to think a lot | but why not go for a walk | down to the river at sunrise | light your own lamp and see

above the river the clouds drift | blue curds in a curdled cup | across the cusp of morning | allowing themselves to receive | the broken sun still hidden | the gentle revelation