January Night Prayer by Ursula K. Le Guin

On this last night of January, here is the powerful Ursula K. Le Guin poem, "January Night Prayer."

January Night Prayer
by Ursula K. Le Guin

Bellchimes jangle, freakish wind
Whistles icy out of desert lands
over the mountains. Janus, Lord
of winter and beginnings, riven
and shaken, with two faces,
watcher at the gates of winds and cities,
god of the wakeful:
keep me from coldhanded envy,
and petty anger. Open
my soul to the vast
dark places. Say to me, say again
nothing is taken, only given.

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