Dance

Dance of the Months
A Christmas Card

January comes with his ice crown.
February spilling thaw and snowdrops.
March, bursting loud cheeks !
Then April, with a troop of lambs and daffodils.
May, keeper of peat-hill and cuithe stream.
June, covering the night fire in the north.
July, tall and blue as lupins.
August with the cut corn stalks,
September, dusting cobwebs from the lamp.
October, good witch with nuts and apples
November, host to shades and hallows.
December with snowflake and star.

in the inn of December, a fire,
A loaf, a bottle of wines.
Travellers rich and poor are on the roads.

George Mackay Brown