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# Solstice
- URL: https://poetry101.love/solstice/
- Published: 2024-06-21T00:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-05T21:26:56.000Z
- Description: by Tess Taylor
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

How again today our patron star  
whose ancient vista is the long view

turns its wide brightness now and here:  
Below, we loll outdoors, sing & make fire.

We build no henge  
but after our swim, linger

by the pond. Dapples flicker  
pine trunks by the water.

Buzz & hum & wing & song combine.  
Light builds a monument to its passing.

Frogs content themselves in bullish chirps,  
hoopskirt blossoms

on thimbleberries fall, peeper toads  
hop, lazy—

Apex. The throaty world sings *ripen*.  
Our grove slips past the sun’s long kiss.

We dress.  
We head home in other starlight.

Our earthly time is sweetening from this.

Tess Taylor. Originally published in [Poem-a-Day](https://poets.org/poem-a-day?ref=poetry101.love) on June 19, 2015, by the Academy of American Poets.

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### Why I chose this poem

It's such a sweet counterpart to one of my [first and favorite Margaret Atwood poems](https://poetry101.love/solstice-poem/)!