Poetry
Winter Solstice 2011
This night’s longest darkness entices and calls to an instinct, profound and arcane, which enthralls. ‘Tis a drive to remark, witness each new detail, both […]
Winter Solstice 2007
‘Tween dark and dark I toil each day. As I walk, dawn and dusk, between home and work’s fray. Though each step seems quite slow, […]
Winter Solstice 2006
On the hilltop her lingering gaze absorbs night, While I stir (restless sleep) she tracks each star’s swift flight. Though unknown to me, this owl-eyed […]
Winter Solstice 2005
When leaving the office I’m greeted by night, brisk darkness already awaits me. A tip of the moon rising slow, silver-bright; The year’s longest night […]
Winter Solstice 2004
These brief days tumble past, each one blurred in its turn, as they hasten along on their wint’ry sojourn.. I see, bound for my work, […]
Winter Solstice 2003
The Solstice has passed, the year’s shortest diurn, So Earth starts a new year: light begins to return. The quick golden days dance a charming […]
Winter Solstice 2002
Wrapped in sleepy-eyed numbness, with silence replete, in the pre-dawn, I trudged down my neighborhood street. Both my thoughts and my feet stumbling heavy toward […]
Winter Solstice 2001
The solstice approaches, so Sol-time wanes fleetly. Fatigued, yet I strive to tend Yule tasks completely. With my spirits taxed, too, by both jet-bombs and […]
Winter Solstice 2000
This sunrise births Winter, a dawn cold and crisp, whose cloud’s crimson birth-rags herald both hope and risk. For as with all Dark Times, on […]
Winter Solstice 2012
I wake from darkness into dark, to begin the year’s shortest day. Under grey skies the diurnal journey embarks, in rose, ochre, crimson array. The […]