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December Sauna   
~ by Marcie Telander 

Picture
You -
arising from the snowbound stream
like a willow, encased
in taut winter skin.
This other skin frozen into an arctic gown
or a shroud
floating 
over pink naked flesh.

Opening your mouth
through wreathes of breath,
screaming: “HOOOOOOOOOYAH!”
Ice-slicked, crystallized curls thrown back
sauna-birthed 
out of December’s gestation
your steaming newborn self.

You --
plunging into
water so cold
could not, at first, separate
bones and blood from
its’ zeroed embrace.
Heart pausing,
tremulous, uncertain—hot human
magma coagulating in its cage 
of stunned ribs, 
flash-frozen,
turned again into frigid fire.

You --
slim, white sword unsheathed
being tempered through
glacial baptism,
leaden chill 
creeping mercury that
heart and blood
so easily become.

You --
vaulting up through frigid scrims
of ice,
screaming your silver breath,
the last heat
human furnace and bellows release. 

Poems

For You, In Gratitude
Newborn Poems
Poetry for Lughnasa
Le Petit Mort
Here's What You Need to Do
Home Studies
Winter Solstice
December Sauna
Into the Air  
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  • Home
  • About Marcie
    • Marcie's Notebook
  • Services
    • Offerings
  • Secular Ministry
  • Poems
    • For you, In Gratitude
    • Newborn Poems
    • Poetry for Lughnasa
    • Le Petit Mort
    • Here is What You Need to Do
    • Home Studies
    • Winter Solstice
    • December Sauna
    • Into The Air
  • How We Are Happy
    • Lovage and Hemlock
    • Thanksgiving
  • Classes/Presentations
  • Past Blogs
    • Essays for the Hungry Soul >
      • My Father's Day
      • Earth Year!
      • Living in Pandora
      • Feast of Imbolc
    • Earth Celebrations >
      • Celebrating May and the Month of the Bear
      • All Hallow's
      • Never pass up an opportunity to Celebrate!
      • Time to Cease your Labors for a Fairy Tale
      • Late Summer and Closer to the Bone
      • Dancing at Leghnasa
      • Inter-dependance Day
      • Beltaine - Bringing
      • Welcoming Spring
      • Winter Divination
      • Light Chasing the Dark
    • Wise Talk
    • Innersanctuary Meditations
  • Current Blogs