Ralph Murre: "The Light This Day"

                                                  

                                                The light this day
                                                has every leaf of the forest
                                                   crying for its beauty
                                                   every ripple on this lake
                                                   outshining the next
                                                   a far crow
                                                   fearing
                                                   the loss of his darkness



"The Light This Day" by Ralph Murre, from The Price of Gravity. © Auk Ward Editions, 2010.

Art credit: "Crows—Towards the sun I fly, not as Icarus," photograph by Hash Milhan (originally color, digitally manipulated by curator).