Saturday, December 21, 2024

Winter Solstice

by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

Written while rocking a cranky baby
The only way this solstice day
to greet the lack of light 
is to sing, to fill the night
sky with music, shy of stars
and moon as it may be, you still
must fling your voice, far & away 
the best hope you have & are,
for song is a salve that heals all harm,
the why we whistle in the dark,
it rescues us from the teeth of grief,
that starved and ever-hungry shark
that would devour us. The day is brief
but bright. Break it with song,
invite the darkling world to sing along.

Percy Warner 

fun dinner out at the Redheaded Stranger 

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