Summer Solstice – Midsummer

Thursday, June 19, 2024 

4:50 p.m.

 

One of the four solar holidays;

the turning point

at which summer reaches its height,

 and the sun shines longest.

 

Solstice Sunset Shadows
(Photograph by CDI)

“Brightness appears showing us everything
it reveals the splendors it calls everything
but shows it to each of us alone
and only once and only to look at
not to touch or hold in our shadows
what we see is never what we touch…”

 

            W. S. Merwin, “The Wings of Daylight”