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In our Great Vigil of Easter service tonight, the phrase "The night is clear as the day. . .then shall my night be turned into day" stood out to me. The notion of night being the same to God as day might mean a host of things (e.g. God is omniscient and nothing can be hidden from God or God is pure light, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, so nothing can "dull" God, etc.). I chose the concrete interpretation as Easter is synonymous with spring in the Northern Hemisphere with a subtle tribute to Easter.
Night to Day
Verging on week 3
Since vernal equinox -
A slow expanding
Of light,
Pushing back the corners
Of night.
Coaxing trees to bud
then bloom
freshly adorned;
The cardinal red
chases his golden girl
the rays an aphrodisiac.
And slowly,
at times imperceptible,
Life returns
in waves and lengths of light.
The night growing faint
in memory -
A poor dream
of some other reality
Post meridiem
marked less and less
by dark - a night
being turned - today.
(4.8.23)
