I sat in the sun
by Jane Hirschfield
I moved my chair into sun
I sat in the sun
the way hunger is moved when called fasting.
Citizens in Rjukan, Norway, enjoy long sun every summer, but every winter, for five or six long months, their steep mountainsides cast their town into darkness.
Until today.
Today, three giant mirrors cast sunlight directly into the town square, and the winter fast ended. Some sat atop parents' shoulders, others stood. All smiled, many laughed, and others cheered.
A century-old scheme + an artist's ingenuity = eternal joy.
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