Morning walk

I receive this blessing

softly before the sun rises

an orange yellow pink glow

on the eastern horizon

sillouetting a sacred mesa'd mountain

nested between jagged peaks

I receive this softening this opening 

this joy this blessing

as the earth begins 

its tilt towards the sun

this short november day like a jewel

as I walk backwards to face east

the earth tilting steadily towards day

drawn in its magnetic gyre to the light

I continue walking westward

the sun warming my back

my shadow cast on the earth

a darkened rocky limestone figure 

mirrors my every step

it is Inanna's shadow

she is walking with me

"I am walking on the earth again

I have returned"

she rejoices as two birds

side by side in unison

fly in across her shadow.

My hands rise of their own volition

drawn upward into the centrifugal vortex of early light

the fiery star ball 

fills the air with radiance

my upraised palms cupped to receive

the blessing of this day.




—Lorena 11/11/2020