Ode to the Light in the Evening

The earth is an ordered body, just as we are ordered
beings
and she reflects and resonates
the same warm streams of electric, amber light
that every living creature feels coursing through their physical bodies,
connecting the mind and the heart,
and filling up that space between them (the chest cavity
that overlies our holiest organ and contains
the soul) with golden spaciousness.
This is why the light turns
all warm and glowing in the sun's preamble to its setting;
the sun, messenger between earth and sky,
is a visceral embodiment of these rays, and it grows
most intensely lovely
and magical in the moments before it finally settles into the bosom of the earth, and delivers
to her own glowing core (both iron, both like blood)
all the infinite wisdom
that it, the holy messenger sun, has gathered throughout its day
spent with the moon, and clouds,
and veiled but still existant stars.


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