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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 61. December Sketches and Solsitice Evening
December Sketches
I greet you
from the cool autumn night
where contrabass owls tune their voices
on their high oaken chairs in the shadowed forest,
and low clouds reflecting village lights
speed you my love on the
rising wind.
Down, down, down
through winter’s deep darkness,
the cold moonlit stillness settles sharp
over silver shadowed meadow, farm and forest,
its chill seeping into those who lie
under blankets too thin
for slumber.
All those bright
holiday cards I write
to branches of my family tree
and to those friends with whom I raced across youth’s fields
find their way over plains and oceans
to repeat joy shared and
remembered.
Solstice Evening
Twitch-tail grey squirrels
scamper skyward up the oak
to mate in the clouds.
The old weathervane
sits silent in the chill night
keenly listening
to us groan on our hinges
if we should change direction.
Wild boy,
sleep beside me
in your exhausted state,
because your every graceful move
repaid
my own
reciprocal invitation,
enough to tame heaven
and leave my frame
at peace.
You lie with brow relaxed, eyes closed in sleep,
curled in moon-shadowed contrast
to the chaotic sheets.
Wake with me
to end this longest night
as sun tinted skies dance on the ridge;
with languid kiss and sweet caress drive far away
all thought of winter’s dark dominion
and in the growing light
let us bloom.
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