'A Prayer to the Sun'

(in memory of Miguel Hernandez)

      (1)
    Darkness
above all things
    the Sun
     makes
     rise

                      (2)
                    Vultures
                salute their meat
                    at noon
                   (Hell is
                    silent)

                                         (3)
                                      Blind Sun
                                     our ravager
                                      bless us
                                       so that
                                      we sleep.

	-- Geoffrey Hill