One Today
One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
Poet Richard Blanco read these lines yesterday, at the second inauguration of President Obama. Blanco's words invoke the image of the vast and wondrous landscape that we, the people, share.
Early on a frigid January morning, on the day after the inauguration of another American president, I watch a ship plowing north through the icy Great Lakes. The sight of that single ship propels me into the one today that the poet writes about.
I just have this one day. It's really all any of us have.
Let it be a good day and let it begin.
Copyright 2013
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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