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September 13, 2020
MONROVIA, CA – SEPTEMBER 11: A firefighter keeps watch on flames that could jump the Angeles Crest Highway at the Bobcat Fire in the Angeles National Forest on September 11, 2020 north of Monrovia, California. California wildfires that have already incinerated a record 2.3 million acres this year and are expected to continue till December. The Bobcat Fire has grown to more than 26,000 acres. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

When the sky is orange

at nine a.m., it looks like dusk. 

It’s the transitional time

Of twilight and morning

Of nothing itself.

 

On Yom Kippur, in the liminal space

Are we dying or new shrouded in white,

in the unknown of a changing self,

meeting God and emerging maybe?

The sky is blazing orange with smoke,

How can I know 

is the sun rising or setting on our world?

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