Midwinter List

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Dear dark one on the mounting sleigh
mother / father who proclaims the starlight
please bring us
raised voices that remember solar singing
and the binding mistletoe
silent space to grieve
best in this dark substrate
when the sun is old
sleep that alleviates time
like the cawing of ravens
in the blue-black night
Dear horned beasts who
float the sky among your tines
please bring us truth
not the wrapping of it
in pages that will outlast
our nightmares
bring us
songs to cradle
death and life
into our wide-eyed
souls
bring us comfort
that makes us
porous
company
that makes us
raucous
kin
that makes us breathless
with their
being
here
Ignite in
silken candle
fronds
the truth
of safe
waking
which every day
should
bring us
to our knees
in trembling awe
bring us
deep pulsating
stars of hope
to dig
with rusty
hands
into
the earth
bring us eyes
that water
with the
crescent cut of
newborn sun
and bring us
silence
for all the songs
that sleep
like golden feathers
in the darker dust.

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