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Solstice
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When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father’s archaic restrictions and my mother’s culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap.
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Solstice Hymn by Stewart Stafford
Brittle bones upon the bitter green,
Ancient oil poured anoints this night,
Candlelit lifeline in a smothering void,
The covenant of fire amid frosty siege.
Nascent gold concubines the grey,
Eternal changing of the guard secured.
Traversing 'neath a Long Night Moon,
With symptoms of mortality to allay.
Let fear melt away as the last chillblain,
Sun’s palest eye affirms striving will.
Summer’s warmth radiates far horizons.
The Northern Lights’ verdant star’s a
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