Welcome to Sunday Morning Lyricality, featuring a weekly song or poem by a Minnesota writer.
Easter Sunrise: Halibut Point
Tracy Rittmueller
We face the sun
we cannot see
because nothing
we have done
can stop the dawn
from arriving.
Morning comes in
the thin film between
ocean and heaven
where everything
is water, every-
thing is radiant.
Here in the rapture
of making room
for a new day
there is no place
for self-importance
and yet light advances
as if we, from shore,
had summoned all this
oscillating luminosity.
The wind wakes us,
waves brawl with stones
and gulls announce
the shattering
of shackles while we
stand here on a ledge
of rock at the end
of earth in the midst
of the tumult
and all around us
the bellowing surge
is fracturing brine into
the spectrum of our yearning.
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Tracy Rittmueller is founder and Director of Lyricality. Her chapbook Relearning the Lullabies, was published by Heywood Press in 1994. In 2017, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily nominated her for a Pushcart award. She blogs about poetry and spirituality at TracyRittmueller.com.