Sunset of the Longest Night

Sunset of the Longest Night, originally uploaded by TomRaven.

Winter solstice today and a bright crisp day it was. Here is the sunset on the eve of the longest night. Tomorrow is the shortest day and it's all up hill from now on :-) It will be fun to watch the sun reverse it's norhbound movement and head back southward and set later each ady... soon I will be able to catch the sunset after work again instead of getting home in the dark.

The white dove of winter
sheds its first
fine feathers;
they melt

as they touch
the warm ground
like notes
of a once familiar

music; the earth
shivers and
turns towards
the solstice.

From The Months by Linda Pastan (Poetry magazine 1999)

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