Dawn

This poem captures the utopian state of dawn, and the potential of becoming, imagination, and possibility therein. As Nietzsche (2003) argues in his chapter “Before Sunrise” in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the moment before sunrise suggests an amplifying utopian and poetic relation of the poet with the world as dialogue, one that exists in between the earth and sky; day and night (also see Bachelard, 1988). This moment of flux, as highlighted in the action of the sky, namely the sky’s paling, exemplifies the oscillation between macrocosm and microcosm, mirroring the ebb and flow of the utopian spirit. Every morning is possibility itself; the becoming of heights. The rising blue sky is the friend that keeps you company as you climb the mountains of your life. The following piece inhabits and animates this liminal space, operating as a literary image and state of becoming for both the influx self and the rising sun in its state of betweenness.