Cold, storm,
Extended dark,
Hopeless collapse
To bitter winter--
Transformed now
By warmth
And light:

Welcome candle
In the year's
Twelvth hour;
Brightening,
Extending sight--
And shared by
Only you.

12/10/2015

Author's Note: Nature and fourteen lines.

Posted on 12/12/2015
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