The Perfect Winter Solstice Poem

Updated Dec 21, 2023

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The silhouette of a person in a cloak entering the snowy forest at night.

 

 

TO KNOW THE DARK

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark.
Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

–Wendell Berry

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