Midnight Poetry: To Want in Winter

To Want in Winter

(Jamie Mason)

How Human
To cull evergreen
Amid the barren boughs.
Brandish life
When all is wasted
And lay the feast and fire
As gauntlet down
To winds that gnaw and flay.

In vaulted nights
We plumb the basins
Of our breasts for ghosts
Like Marley’s,
Moaning vows
To clank our chains
Once we’ve gone quiet
Beyond our choice.

And you in your anguish.
And I in my doubt
Refuse to mark our breaths
Between the too faint
Tickings of the clock,
Demanding meaning of the void
And for angelsong to fill
A Silent Night.

(Read more of Jamie Mason’s poetry here.)

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