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A Winter's Solstice

I. December 16--

The snow hugged the night
the world I had known was veiled and vague.
I left through the back 
over the fence, toward the caked sea.

II. December 17-- 

We met him at Harvard.
in the open plaza
behind starbuck’s
near the red field 
and yellow script of the Garage.
The most Irish man in Boston
his teeth were green
as any shamrock, green.
His head reached only my shoulder
he looked down on me 
the whole time
with height made of knowing.
“If you want to stand 
in the center of the world,” he said. 
“You have to know what’s around ya’.”
The snow froze in place outside the walls
as the shrill Leprechaun voice
announced the solstice.