MIDWINTER KISS - By Mara Lemanis
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 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
Mara Lemanis
Biography: Mara Lemanis is a literary scholar. Her essays have been selected for 20th CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM and are included in undergraduate student textbooks in the U.S.
She has worked as an archivist for Historical Preservation and with the IRC, assisting refugees in Oakland, California.
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