Aubade

Dawn comes earlier every day

earth now tilting sunward

by 23.3 degrees. Each ray

formed at our star's core a hundred

thousand years ago, ricochets

to the surface, light-speeds through

space to earth, to fill this holy day

with old light, sky that ancient blue

Titian used just for Mary's robe

lapis ground to dust. After that long night

at dawn they found the empty tomb

He said 'I have come into the world as light.