The Flame

All through summer you blaze in orange/scarlet splendour
across our lounge-room window.

Mid-winter still
finds one bright candle held against the sombre skies
to warm the sun
the pale unseemly sun
filtering through bare branches to gleam on cold pebbles.

So you promise that when day’s shortest span is reached,
mid-summer’s glory is not beyond our hope.

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