Sunrise by Johanna Antonia Zomers

Today is planting day for the farmers

their enamelled furrows enfold

psalms to the Mother

slice into her full-bellied grace.

Blind faith lays claim to

a deserved and promised harvest;

the great awakening earth bed

cradles their gleaming golden dream.

Seeds split open, shoots unfurl.

Their pale filaments grope toward light

turn into shimmer, sheen, wet velvet.

Wash the field with faintest newly born green.

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Johanna Antonia Zomers is a Canadian playwright and columnist in the Ottawa Valley. Her first novel “When the Light Enters” was published with Pastora de la Vega Press in 2017. She is at work on her second novel and a collection of essays. She hopes to become a better poet and to continue spending creative winters in Spain and Ireland.