Poem: Daylight Defines Us

Daylight Defines Us

Daylight defines us,

Sharpened and angular,

Stiff hearts.

Fragile as glass

Beneath

Bald morning.

Midday

Begins to rumble on the stove.

The Sun,

Ever flexible,

Stretched across the zenith,

Assuages our doubt,

Guilt,

And softens the lens of self.

Goddess Sun,

By five

Has turned every head towards the tap

And our reckless thirst

Is the first moist seed of rebirth.

For when She settles underneath the earth,

And we celebrate our reunification

In black of night’s arrival,

All is drawn together by the dark,

Bleeding into one.

Within the womb of now.

Russell Anderson, born and raised in Scotland’s capital of Edinburgh, has lived in South Australia since 2013. A disability support worker, he has also worked as an actor on and off since 1998, and occasionally releases music under the pseudonym of Andreas Anderbax of The Anderbax Faction.

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