Solstice
Katie Stine
The Sun in Alaska moves four minutes a day.
Gaining light or losing, each day differs from the one before.
I gain and lose.
The same pendulum of light
Governs my esteem and beauty.
My hunched shoulders uncurl and I stand up straight until I reach
My Zenith, then I begin to wilt all over again.
Katie Stine received her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Alaska in Anchorage in 2005 and was a Classical Music reviewer for the Anchorage Daily
News from 2003 until she moved to Atlanta, Georgia in November of 2006. She
has published short stories in literary magazines such as Peralta Press,
Mudhead Underground Review, Occam's Razor and Atlanta City Mag.