Winter solstice and things pick up
from here, more light and fewer
dark mornings, less toast and lukewarm coffee
taken in the gloom accompanied
by dire warnings
and forebodings in the Herald
about federal politics’ lack of vision –
it’s hard to see the truth
when the sun
is taking northern holidays.
But the days will lengthen now
and politics will warm.
The season of longer days
provides relief, the earlier dawn
dispelling half-awake dreams
with their disconcerting slogans
and the shouted untruths
of bankrupt ideologies.
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