Envelopes

How is the sun rise so different from its set?
How is one so opaque, dense with beginning
and the other like coloured tissue slipping,
complicated and spent?
One pours over a body, burying it
the other pours through it, sifting
lifting the worthwhile over the trees
and leaving just ash on a bench.
How do they repeat their concentration daily
never letting it seem like before?

july 3, 2010

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