#1946 - the uses of the sun

 

1946

6.120

30.iv.25

the uses of the sun

renewables series

 

fires me up

gives me ideas

 

gets me out of bed

makes mornings

from the early hours

 

with risings, settings, steady on

your sun’s sovereign

measures all s

never not with

sine qua non  of shadow

 

sun tells horizon

shows up the webs in windows

lights the mirrors here, the moon  

 

shines every sea in turn

 

and bids the leaf, the flower

 

charges nothing, everything

 

who else can break through clouds

for the godbeam?

 

there’s winter for a hope

surely we’ll salute

 

in the name of light

 

what else is this hat for, the glasses

and the roof?

 

one day it will fizzle

some fast expansion first

then that won’t be a day at all

but let’s not trouble with this now

 

they say it will be a billion years

five billion from now

but what’s a year without the sun?

no one’s ever known

 

best then to be in the here and now

 

can’t you see?

that’s why!

 

how mainly it’s to go around

and come around again

though it’s we’re doing that

this the loveliest illusion!

 

nights when it hides

that’s just to be

someone else’s star