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Saint Light
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Lucia
Giving birth
In spirit
And calendar
To solstice
Then to Christmas
The festivals of days
Sung by ancient voices
Variously doctrinaire
Also enculturated
Now
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Santa Lucia
Lights
On wreaths
In Scandinavia
Illumined
In other nations
Other places
Say
In Syracuse
On Sicily
Where
Then
And throughout
There is
The song
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Special food
(everywhere)
As well
To match the time
The separation
From
Ordinary drives
Today
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Christian
And also enculturated
Much like the season
We inhabit
Of so many
Days
The stories
With their membership
On hearing
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Close to solstice
So also for
The timing
Of these broader days
Say longer nights
For fears
In all of this
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Small lights in the darkness
‘Til banks of angels
Set the stars on fire with
Announcements
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Here is the day
Here is the sky
Fear not
Winter is not the end
We promise spring
With longer days
Dressed
Inside
Outside
Green and health
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So for these colder days
To north
And scalding days to south
We without angels
Maybe
Maybe offer news
As gospel
Good news
And
Oh
So many stories
To tell each other
Through
Seasons’ hardships
And hard feelings
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Also then
Some for
In fact
Bonfires
Like the angels and the stars
Though mostly
For the axis of the Earth
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The smaller lights will do
But sometimes large
For dancing near
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‘Til later on
In spring
And then the fall
The equinox secure
The balance in
All better things
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on Santa Lucia Day
(13 December 2023)
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