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Winter Solstice


Winter Solstice illustrated
Full moon in Beaver Damn Wash


It has always been spoken of
as the grave and womb of light
this most brief day
this deepest midnight
stiffened with ice and silence.

It is crucial now that there be
harbors and pools and islands
of light, and it is necessary
that there be song
for the dead are everywhere

stricken with grief, wandering
among the birds of winter but
with song they may be comforted
and Love, on this longest of nights,
requires the giving of a gift.


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Then and Now

The picture is from a photo album
my mother request on her death bed.
She is the girl sitting on the dock.
This poem is for her.

then and now - poster poem