Carol of the Dark Sky

Advent turns in the same cycle
year to year. The same songs of hope
stir the chill of the air, and
candle flames flutter close to the page.
I don't always know
what we're celebrating.
Outside, we look up. Stars and worlds
radiate their cold light in
unending night. Perhaps they
will gleam in kindness, in the breath
that forms frost in every singing note
of the beseeching chorus of Earth.

Meg Smith is a poet, writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. Her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding, Poetry Bay,The Horror Zine, Silver Blade, Raven Cage, The Blue Hour Anthology, and many more.

Her short fiction collection The Plague Confessor is available at her online store! megsmithwriter.com

Her most recent poetry books, Pretty Green Thorns, Night's Island, This Scarlet Dancing and Dear Deepest Ghost, are available on Amazon.

Find more by Meg Smith in the Author Index.