Desember in my
Mucha kalender.
Desember het aangebreek, met stories van tereur aanvalle in Mumbaai,
barbare wat 'n assistent in 'n Walmart doodgetrap het, toe 2000 van hulle by die deure ingestorm het om hulle afslag inkopies te doen en vele meer treurige gebeurtenisse oral oor die wereld.
Vandag is internasionale vigs dag.
Kliek, kliek
en na dit alles, wonderwoorde van Carol Ann Duffy:
The year dwindles and glows
to December's red jewel,
my birth month.
The sky blushes,
and lays its cheek
on the sparkling fields.
Then dusk swaddles the cattle,
their silhouettes
simple as faith.
These nights are gifts,
our hands unwrapping the darkness
to see what we have.
The train rushes, ecstatic,
to where you are,
my bright star.
~ Carol Ann Duffy, from Rapture
