Charles Bertram Johnson, an African American poet and educator, traces a single day from morning through noon to night, using shifting images of cloud, rain, and fading light. The musical setting follows this progression. It begins quietly, with restrained textures suggesting a sky obscured by cloud. As the day reaches noon, the writing grows denser and more forceful, echoing the physical presence of rain and its weight on the landscape. In the final section, the music settles into a calmer, more reserved close, ending not in certainty but in the quiet continuation of time and the expectation of another dawn.
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