The Promise of Dawn
A Promise of Dawn is the reminder that the sun always rises; every day there's another promise of a tomorrow even though we may have no faith in it and can't explain it. That the sun is rising amongst moving clouds over tidal waters adds another element of movement while holding the paradox of spiritual stillness in shifting tides.
It is an answer to the daily prayer of, "Please, just one more day. Help me make it one more day." It is inspired by the poem below:
36 x36" and $4600
Birth-day by Lucille Clifton
today we are possible
the morning, green and laundry-sweet
opens itself and we enter
blind and mewling
Everything waits for us:
the snow kingdom
sparkling and silent
in its glacial cap
the cane fields
shining and sweet
in the sun-drenched south
as the day arrives
with all its clumsly blessings
what we will become
waits in us like an ache
