The light has climbed six months to stand
still
— then, by seconds, it turns back toward the dark.
solstitium — the sun, standing still
Sixteen hours and forty minutes of daylight today, and the day still lengthening — by some twenty-five seconds.
On Sunday the twenty-first, at twenty-four minutes past nine, it stops: the sun stands, and the year turns over.
nocturne · edition viii · standstill
made in the small hours of 18 June — tomorrow the light begins to fall, and the page becomes another thing
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