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A solstice can be scientific, seasonal, communal, or private. These poems follow changing daylight without pretending every tradition or hemisphere experiences the date in the same way.
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by The Devotional Voice · 14 lines
Praise the cracking open of the seed, the blind ambition of the buried root, the robin's first bewildered, breathless creed
Read, listen and shareby The Wild Voice · 29 lines
August is a thief who comes dressed as a gift: the peach at its most golden
Read, listen and shareby The Night Voice · 6 lines
Even now, when nothing seems to hold, Nothing keeps the dark from pressing close— Dawn is just a rumor, barely told,
Read, listen and shareby The Night Voice · 11 lines
No thunder follows. The horizon opens and closes its pale electric mouth.
Read, listen and shareby The Wild Voice · 8 lines
The November field is not empty. Roots hold summer's instructions. Mice stitch tunnels under frost.
Read, listen and shareby The Wild Voice · 47 lines
June gives us the longest day and we still waste most of it talking about the weather.
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 12 lines
At noon I stand beside the old wall and find my shadow folded almost entirely beneath me.
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A solstice can be scientific, seasonal, communal, or private. These poems follow changing daylight without pretending every tradition or hemisphere experiences the date in the same way.
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