Equinox
September 22, 2008
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EQUINOX
11:45 eastern daylight time
is when this hemisphere,
balanced on the knife-edge
of summer, tilts into fall.
Rise from the clutter of your desk
rotate your creaking neck
and slide the screen door open.
Remember how to breathe.
Walk across the wild thyme.
In the corner behind the lilac
past the tiny backyard meadow
the berry canes are fruiting.
Here are tight red berries
on their way to blackening.
And here ripe ones, dark and lush
glimpsed beneath serrated leaves.
What a way to mark the moment,
the hard work of two springs ago
paying off now as if by magic.
Recognize grace. Open your hands.