Shining

Rays of sun countour temperature,

cluster virginia spiderwort color,

follow slumped bends of gravity

to prism the applause of thunder

after the quick miracle of a rainstorm.

Sunlight so basic. Unbinding elements

for forms that merge a continual.

How it shrinks shadows at the height

of solar noon, how it moves beyond 

what was thinking, an energy with all

which is an entirety that's not a day

greater or lesser than offshoots

of wind. Light of eternal forward,

that the world has fall aslant as it backs

away off on the diagonal, returning

to the personal axis of turning,

what makes for the inertia of time,

the toll on life, gravity's relative older

amassed by the heart balanced in orbit,

as you go elsewhere while earth it stays, 

while light it stays ongoing, right here

and there as it is never to be waiting,

never even grasping, and it too, also

always, always weightlessly passing.