Length of Light

If you have ever faced down the hole in the night--that time when the irrelevance of life seems the only thing that makes sense, you'll remember yourself in the way this everyday, every person classic speaks to the moment when daylight comes first as the smell of dust and hay reaching up toward the sky. Length of Light slices through the complications of life and with noisy and hurried intent ushers in our consent of a new day. Deborah L. Weaver has lived among mountain pines and Midwest wetlands long enough to know that there's always another sunrise, even if you have to wait long in the darkness for it to arrive. Timothy Riley provided the cover photograph.