bleodswean: (the end)
bleodswean ([personal profile] bleodswean) wrote in [community profile] greatpoetry2023-12-21 03:47 pm

Solstice Poem ~ Margaret Atwood

 
This is the solstice, the still point
 
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
 
the year’s threshold
 
and unlocking, where the past
 
lets go of and becomes the future;
 
the place of caught breath, the door
 
of a vanished house left ajar.