The Shortest Day of the Year

December 21, 2010

Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash

In its pre-dawn winter slumber
Our street lies silent, cold and bare.
Scant sign of snow this dank December:
Christmas will be green this year.

A single light in the cul-de-sac,
Along the street appears another.
More squares light up amid the dark.
In the distance revs a motor.

Of those opening notes I nothing know, 
Knit…