Cam Ceiliog - The dying of the year

Portobello, Edinburgh, a misty day on the Forth - it seems a long time to summer.

Cam Ceiliog by Katherine Venn

Welsh for cockerel's step - a local name for the Winter Solstice

Draw up the darkness, pull it round
yourself; let winter settle
as the light's door closes,
narrows to the soft,
unwinking gaze
of just one
bright eye.
Rest.
The path
before you
has been marked: trust
that the light will stretch
each day by the length
of a cockerel?s step, whose crows
slough off winter, peel back the dawn.

Part of the Waybook series
Hat tip to Caught by the River