Aurora Prone
Aurora Prone - meaning Summary
Late Afternoon's Expanding Light
The poem observes a late-afternoon rural scene where sunlight transforms ordinary details into a broad, luminous landscape. Small lives and objects—mosquitoes, rabbits, a dog, trees, willows, beans—are registered as parts of an expanding visual perspective. The light both reveals and diminishes: it floods, re-colors, then shortens into the close of day. The poem meditates on scale, perception, and how a single quality of light reshapes commonplace reality.
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