A Revelation in the Sun - Claire Hanson

The sky is bleeding.

After the longest day this earth has ever seen

the scorching sun has finally been swallowed up –

lost over the edge of the world

where sky meets sea.

In its wake it has left the sky

an infected open wound.

It is beautiful.

Fiery layers of crimson rage and soft pink purity,

fluorescent yellow exploitation and blazing orange manipulation,

these realities are blurred together beyond my tears,

softened only by thin splashes of calm blue forgiveness.

This entire country shares the same wound,

and its sublimely satanic rainbow

fragments my understanding of humanity –

After so much pain, after enduring so much hatred,

They are able to love

with more strength than anyone

I will ever know.