Architecture of the Solstice

In darkness we stumble.

Confusion has no path,

unknowing, no arrival.

Then

a glow

in blackness

a point.

Murky

awareness

twisting

within

murky

awareness

spies a reflection

of its buried spark.

The hearth

of this ignition

is an alignment

of the eye

through

frame

to

distant

blaze.

Due to earth's miraculous tilt

wherever you stand

at the solstice dawn

the glow emerges

due east.

Since the first dawn

the eye

framed this dawn

with stone

with timber

Framed it

with the mind

as if guiding

strands

of heat

into the soul's

dark well.

As if

this elusive moment

could be grasped.

The architecture

of the solstice

is not

in the position

of the stars.

It's in

the alignment

of

the eye.