There can be no doubt that what gives this time of the year its power
is the return of the sun after midwinter (December 22nd for 2011.)
though I am
a modern man,
I wonder :
What is it like to feel --
physically and in every sense
and orifice --
the exact moment the sun has ceased
its fall deeper and deeper
each day (since the equinox
in September),
its effortless
leaving of us
with less and less of its light --
more precious to me than bread or water,
though I love bread and am 67% water...
and to awake from this day forward
crowned again
with all our heliotropic philosophies and creeds
by our soul's alma mater?
is the return of the sun after midwinter (December 22nd for 2011.)
though I am
a modern man,
I wonder :
What is it like to feel --physically and in every sense
and orifice --
the exact moment the sun has ceased
its fall deeper and deeper
each day (since the equinox
in September),
its effortless
leaving of us
with less and less of its light --
more precious to me than bread or water,
though I love bread and am 67% water...
and to awake from this day forward
crowned again
with all our heliotropic philosophies and creeds
by our soul's alma mater?
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