January Sun
At last comes the long-awaited month after the solstice.
The snow-glint yellow sun dancing on the still-porous surface of the frozen reservoir,
My heart an astronomer as it expands to greet the lengthening days.
It will not protect me, this cold sun, this small sun,
Beginning-of-winter sun.
It will not save me from stinging cheeks, numb and clumsy fingers,
The unforgiving vastness of the winter air.
Still there is joy in the sun’s rising ever further to the north
As it embarks faithfully on its slow journey towards spring.
I lower my scarf as it crests the trees,
Baring my face to this stoic, necessary light.
Date submitted: February 3, 2023 Date accepted: May 2, 2023
Recent Posts
See AllIn response to “‘Uninterrupted Joy, Unrivalled Love’: Reading Paradise Lost Through Affective Prayer” by Shelby Haber. When I first encountered Paradise Lost as a young, bright-eyed undergraduate, I w
Psychosis, Self-Estrangement, and Estrangement from Reality in Robert Lowell’s Neurodiverse Poetry “And some go mystical, and some go mad.”[1]—A.M. Klein Abstract This paper illuminates the ways in wh
Throughout Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy pays a great deal of attention to clothing details, lingering on sartorial choices and changes characters make over the course of the narrative. From Arabella