MIDWINTER KISS

MIDWINTER KISS

It is for you
I stand in silence
a million sierras
bursting 
through my skin
you do not hear
it is midwinter
and I pause
heralding the sign
you draw in silence
as you wake 
from slumber

I blow a kiss
as close as 
earth to fire
as still as snow
in solstice
I will bless
and forge
the ancient love
inside the foundry 
your volcano world
will trust as 
portent 
as a birth
brand new

but it is old 
chronic
as rebirth
the slow return
eternal as your axis
tilting at the disk 
on fire in
the galactic dark

that stopped
to light a kiss 
midwinter
plant the portent
grown from
solstice silent
in beatitude
like a deity
in love

 --Mara Lemanis

Images: 1) Solstice, 2) Solstice morning, 3) Mara Lemanis