Three Fates at Sunrise

A hymn to the power of Nature to build resilience.

Girl on Beach. Drawing by the author.

A light grey thread pulls the horizon into the dawn, bisecting the enveloping black night that has wrapped her for an age.

Still, hardly breathing, she stands stock — listening to the waves lap, the shingle shurr on the shore…

She stands straight, rooted as rock. Her heart beats the rhythm of the ancient song, sending the…