Past perihelion, flung back into space
Chileans watch their Summer sun recede
still snugly held in gravity's embrace
a dancer following Sol's stately lead.
Norteños watch days wax, and night-lengths wane
as New Year treads the beard of one grown old.
An axis canted from the solar plane
means days grow longer while our world's still cold.
Nativity got overlaid on Yule
as Saturnalia morphed to sing God's birth.
To face the dead of Winter sober's cruel
while pagans fete renewal of the Earth
As years concatenate another link,
we pass the darkest night with friends, and drink.
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