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“ODE TO THE SUN

cracking the boughs
of my neighbors' pines
with your light—

your first appearance
in what feels like months

let me stand in my bathrobe
one foot in the pantry
the other in the kitchen and lean
to the left

so your fire
finds my irises
I want to be

blinded so when I close
my eyes even then

you are with me—
thumbprint

on the darkness—”
― Brooke Matson, In Accelerated Silence: Poems

“All light was once matter
and all matter shall become light.
...
I want to be folded whole
into the light that fills your place.”
― Brooke Matson, In Accelerated Silence: Poems