Solstice — a Poem

in this winter,

a dark dreaming fills

the space between my

bones

mother, I feel

you there to hold

me

my eyes, my heart, my breath

is full of you

you who are the world

without a candle, without a light

when all is bare

you fill me

with hope for the future

you hold my grief

in the palm of your hands

and bury all these laments

like seeds

dark and fertile

written Winter Solstice 2023.