Invitation
Sunrise,
casting its reach
on icy puddles,
shimmering,
fractured mirrors, catching
a thousand rays of gold.
This brick wall,
tired and weathered,
glowing, is a canvas painted
rusty amber and rainbow corn shades,
its cracks holding light, secrets
whispered but not lost.
A shaft of sunlight slips
between bare branches,
illuminating a frost-laden spiderweb
stitched across a fairie window,
once invisible, now gleaming,
momentarily precious.
Shadows play longer,
stretching thin across the ground
as if reaching for something
they’ll never quite hold.
On days like this,
a quiet alchemy of cold and fire,
the world glows, radiant,
inviting you to notice.