This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar.Taking hands like children
lost in a six-dimensional
forest, we step across.
The walls of the house fold themselves down,
and the house turns
itself inside out, as a tulip does
in its last full-blown moment, and our candle
flares up and goes out, and the only common
sense that remains to us is touch,as it will be, later, some other
century, when we will seem to each other
even less what we were.
But that trick is just to hold on
through all appearances; and so we do,
and yes, I know it’s you;
and that is what we will come to, sooner
or later, when it’s even darker
than It is now, when the snow is colder,
when it’s darkest and coldest
and candles are no longer any use to us
and the visibility is zero: Yes.
It’s still you. It’s still you.m. atwood
DRESS: Winter Dress by !gO! ~ Available at A Winter Solstice in the Mystic Realms Pale Girl Productions {December 9th – 19th}
HAIR: Nymph Hair by RunAway ~ Available at Hairology {December 10 to December 30}
HEADDRESS: Christmas Cactus Crown {White} RARE by LODE ~ Available at The Chapter Four {December 4 to December 25}
EYE MAKEUP: Ula by Zibska ~ Free Gift ~
SKIN: Madyson {Nordic} by DeeTaleZ
HEAD: Tumble by CATWA
FLOWERS: *LODE* Head Accessory – Christmas Cactus Wreath[salmon] ~ Available at The Chapter Four {December 4 to December 25}
POSE: Warm Glow by Le Poppycock ~ Available at The Chapter Four {December 4 to December 25}
SCENE:
Polar Bears by Black Bantum ~ Available at The Chapter Four {December 4 to December 25}
Winter Trees by AiShA ~ Available at A Winter Solstice in the Mystic Realms Pale Girl Productions {December 9th – 19th}
Atlantis Ice Crystals by E.V.E ~ Available at We Love Roleplay {December 4 to December 30}
ISPACHI [CHERISHED MOMENTS] Polar Bears
