
Sunbreak
Day rises out of night-chill
and white frost
bathed in frozen fog.
Pearled sky blues, touch by touch,
beaten by kestrel wings
searing the trailing mist
until on a sudden,
in a wing-flash, white as egrets,
there is only light,
green, blue,
and between, the kestrel god
hangs in splendour.
Sunrise and sunset seem quite sudden this time of year. (K)
Yes, the sun rises and sets in cloud or fog. Sometimes we don’t even notice it’s happened.