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Rennie McQuilkin&#;s poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, and elsewhere. He is the author of ten poetry collections, the most recent of which is The Weathering: New & Selected Poems(); and he has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the State of Connecticut. He co-founded and for nine years directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. In he received the Connecticut Center for the Book&#;s Lifetime Achievement Award for service to the literary community. Rennie McQuilkin lives in Simsbury, CT.


SOLSTICE

At the very instant of Solstice, when the sun stands still,
all things are at that Moment of Equilibrium
when an egg will stand on end.

Nothing stands still this Solstice dawn.
Light lengthens on the bedroom ceiling, assuming
the form of a cross

with a bright amber square
at its crux. What physics is this? I&#;m used to
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