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As he prepared anew there was evidence
in orange glowing mountain eastward ridge
that he would be partnered in morning ritual.
Slowly the dirt of day's past rinsed away
unaware of a silent accompanyment to his cleansing

Now freshened to face what might stand before him
that silent partner spoke her first words:
Moving more than humanly fast, before a towel was reached,
her very first words this day acted to warm and dry.

Absorbing these initial rays from her, a realization:
She, as he, had washed away the prior day's dirt
to some known simply as night, seeing now first light.
breaking free of her rocky resting ridge for all to share

Awash in amber glow, feeling now his silent partner having
unsheithed her beauty from a veil of darkness
He reveled knowing that there was something more magical and
mysterious starting over his ritual this day than most.

Daniel Moniot
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