Saturday, December 22, 2018

Solstice

It gets darker and darker,

And then Jesus is born.


This Wendell Berry 

Went off to a friend,


As a poem a day has gone

Day after day


Since I heard of his 

Separation, divorce.


And it gave an excuse for

A dialogue about grief.


A gift to me

On this shortest day of the year.


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