CULTURAL PROMPT- “WHAT DOES DECEMBER MEAN TO YOU?”

Deca, December

December is a palm cradling the most pivotal moments of my life

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Deca
December
The tenth month of the year
Celebration of Saturn, the Romans remembered
A god capable of generation and destruction, reminiscent of Shiva
In a two-week period of the same, hot December
My husband’s love appeared
as my father’s
faded out
Deca
December
Tick off twenty-seven hopes
Four years to the day of my father’s fade to dark
Waxed a baby anew, growing within, resplendant life, brilliant light
I saw dry land from heaven on a replenishing arc
Eyes become kaleidescopes
Kissing sand
Deca
December
Stars tumble, melting metal
From fiery fall’s grasp - red to ice, blustery to blue
The world as a blazing comet hurtles toward its shining culmination
Its chilly and darkest hour - a hopeful, newest new
Ice dams burst to red petals
Rains fall
Deca