How To Greet the Day

Author Corie Feiner

How To Greet the Day

Corie Feiner

I run to the edge of my gravel driveway 
and bask in the red light of the entire sky 
glowing like a succulent blood orange cut open. 

I remember how much dread with which 
I used to greet each day and how 
the day would nod her glum head back 
at me agreeing, Oh yes, life is bad. 
 
And how this very morning—cold, sockless 
at the holy edge of asphalt and grass
I allow myself to receive 
ultraviolet.  

Did you know that the sun does not even 
set or rise? That we are spinning 
even today, when everything 
seems so still. 
  
I walk into the center of the empty road
and stand there among the song 
of the red-breasted robins and cardinals cheering 

me on—a silly mother basking in a moment 
of rapture before the children 
of the world awake. Like a woman 

who remembers touching the glow 
of her grandmother’s red ruby rings
and hearing her say, One day, this will be 
all yours.

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