Philip Metres is a poet, translator, and scholar and the author of numerous books, including the collections Sand Opera and Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and the nonfiction work The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance. He was awarded the Arab American Book Award and teaches literature as well as creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Solstice Prayer

by Philip Metres

In the name of the darkness,
and of the light, in the name
of the harness of winter’s ice.

In the name of the other,
and of the one, in the name
of the weather, and of the bone.
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