What is the good….

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Quotation by E. M. Forster

“It is always sunrise somewhere….”

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” – Quotation by John Muir

Hilda Morley (1919 – 1998)

Posey County Sunrise

 

 A Thousand Birds by Hilda Morley

 

A thousand birds—they flew out of

your mouth at your dying,

                                       as you said

                                       they would

& bewildered me:

                         They bewilder me still.

Nearly 48 months have passed & the beating

of those wings has haunted,      filled

                                              this room

                                              where I

sit now writing, the room

where you died:

                         a clattering

of wings has passed through these walls.

                                    Something has stopped.

                                    Something

is unable to go any farther.

                                    The wings are

                                    still now

                                    & I rock from

                                    side to side

                                    with the faintest

movement barely perceptible because I cannot

breathe in this stillness

                                        & must set that power

moving,

               those enormous wings

flying again

A Thousand Birds from Cloudless at First by Hilda Morley

(Kingston, Rhode Island: Moyer Bell, 1988)

Sunrise

Sunrise over New Harmony

Cusco, Peru

Sunrise over Cusco

New Dawn Across America

"Posey County Farm" - Solitude, Indiana

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