Trilobite Sunrise

workshopping sketches towards a poem

trilobite sunrise: roll and fly

november 1, ’12, on the new year

how the day begins to start in darkness

the dung beetle SCARAB in Egypt

rolls the sun across the sky as

beetles roll the dung

round and round

what was old is new again

on the new year i argue with

a friend whether regeneration is in the

dark fallowing worm churning compost

(yes)

rather than in the spring: the paradox of

point in time naming in a cycle process

beetle wings: how we can rise and fly in the velvet morning

before sunrise

before sunrise: roll and fly, churn and turn

before sunrise: roll and fly, churn and turn

renewal

in the dark time now, the new time of the wheel turning year

we roll the darkness as dung beetles

even beneath skygod culture overlay, what is true is true

everything starts in regenerative darkness

before light was rolled, we remember the earlier practice

we roll darkness, carrying morning before morning

before sunrise: roll and fly, churn and turn

before sunrise: roll and fly, churn and turn

renewal