sixteen suns #hbdsassyv

on sunday she broke sixteen

whereupon a sleeping city she rose

in the liquid hesitancy between nightfall and dawn

an indigo slit upon the horizon

gaping, lifting, severing the sky,

spilling over the twilight valleys

from which she sprung;

she caressed the interstellar space

draped between her libra stars and her lonely october moon

she painted blinding auroras from the top

and upon her land a morning dropped

the sun broke light and quick and sixteen

broke full of joy and life, a sun

that radiated power and shivered with opportunity,

a protector wielding a sword of peonies, allure, and love

shining where circe embraced last night's setting sun

slithering through dawn like secrets between lovers

on sunday she broke sixteen

and she broke sixteen sweet