{"id":2460,"date":"2026-03-21T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:40:08","slug":"equinox-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/03\/21\/equinox-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"equinox 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love this moment in the season of equality, when both the day and night are the same length. I enjoy firing the wood kiln at this point in the year when the night shift doesn&#8217;t feel endless. Today, I went out in the morning light with my coffee. It was sixty degrees. The world was wet and seemed full of potential as the crows recited their ebony poems. Spring is always about beginning again on our unfinished pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/equinox-1-2026-1-1024x883.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/equinox-1-2026-1-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/equinox-1-2026-1-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/equinox-1-2026-1-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/equinox-1-2026-1-1536x1324.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/equinox-1-2026-1.jpg 1856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Grape Hyacinth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why Are Your Poems So Dark?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn&#8217;t the moon dark too,<br>most of the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And doesn&#8217;t the white page<br>seem unfinished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">without the dark stain<br>of alphabets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When God demanded light,<br>he didn&#8217;t banish darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead he invented<br>ebony and crows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and that small mole<br>on your left cheekbone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or did you mean to ask<br>&#8220;Why are you sad so often?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask the moon.<br>Ask what it has witnessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Linda Pastan, in Poetry, 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/exqinox-2-2026-605x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/exqinox-2-2026-605x1024.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/exqinox-2-2026-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/exqinox-2-2026-768x1299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/exqinox-2-2026-908x1536.jpg 908w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/exqinox-2-2026.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this moment in the season of equality, when both the day and night are the same length. I enjoy firing the wood kiln at this point in the year when the night shift doesn&#8217;t feel endless. Today, I went out in the morning light with my coffee. It was sixty degrees. 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