"The Daylight Is Huge" by Amy MacLennan

Sunrise on the Summer Solstice, seen from North Shore of Lake Superior

at Gooseberry Falls State Park, Minnestota,

Photo by Stephen G. Weaver

The daylight is huge.

Five a.m. and the sky already

blushing gray. Mornings so full

of blue the clouds almost sheepish

as they wisp over hills.

High noon only happens in June,

mid-day a tipping point, the scale

weighed down on both sides

with blazed hours. And the evenings—

so drawn out the land lies stunned

by that shambling last light.

"The Daylight is Huge" by Amy MacLennan from The Body, A Tree. © MoonPath Press, 2016.