SOLSTICED

Solsticed, verb, adjective.

Come be solsticed.
We were solsticed.
Solstice me.

When you become the fire
and the fire becomes you;
you ride the night of the moment.

You are now flame. Rise.

En-embered, fly away into the tree
canopy of space.

Let yourself go with the smoke.
You are the last exhalation
of darkness, gasping for light.

You are the light shimmering to begin, excited, frantic, unable to contain yourself.

Glow, shake, shimmy.
Become sparks.
Become the stars.

Jupiter welcomes you into the heavens through ecstatic branches.
Light the night, light the world,
with Joy.

— Jerome Stueart, Dec 21, 2024