All Desires, at Stonehenge
(a poem of the winter solstice)
Here stands
old earth's compass,
made motionless in stone,
yet swift enough to mark and pace
the sun.
Each year,
the longest night
emerges from these ribs
dark and whole, and winged winter's cold
stays late.
Robed ones,
breathe your prayer,
then lay before these stones
all desires, that the sun-bright spring
may come.

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