Dawn is a Place in the Sky

above all of this

dawn is one ongoing phenomenon

I saw it

from airplane windows

as salmon honey spilled

over a cloud meadow

looking down at Earth

where night and day

are considered

separate ephemera

I saw clearly we

have always been on

the precipice of darkness       

always at morning’s door

I do not say the world

is ending or a new world

is being born out

of despair or hope

just the truth

of immutable revolutions