Summer Solstice – Midsummer

 

Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 11:32 p.m.
Sunrise: 5:07 a.m.
Sunset: 8:24 p.m. 

One of the four solar holidays;
the turning point at which summer reaches its height
and the sun shines longest.

Solstice Dawn

(Monoprint)

I wake slowly. Already

my body is a twilight: Solid. Gold.

At the edge of a larger darkness. But outside

my window

a summer day is beginning. Apple trees

appear, one by one. Light is pouring

into the promise of fruit.

 Ceres Looks at the Morning

Eavan Boland