First Day Of Summer
Charcoal, Graphite
3 1/4" x 4 1/2"
$600.00
First Day Of Summer is an original Charcoal and Graphite Drawing on heavyweight,
acid-free paper.  The drawing measures 3 1/4" x 4 1/2", and is mounted in a white mat
and matte black metal frame.  Framed size is 8" x 10". 

And then, at the last,
an unforeseen Turning,
and Somehow, a Way, a Door we knew once-
lost unknowing, turned back for too late,
though we sought, mourned,
dreamt and woke grieving,
never quite forgot, it seems, after all-
For in this sharply drawn breath,
this moment Outside all we have known
it stands before us again,
that dream remembered:
All the same, nothing like,
impossible, immistakable,
and still ajar.
Across a threshold bright and beckoning,
the First Day of Summer waits,
golden promise undimmed.

Images, text © Mark Reep 2007