Sunday, January 01, 2006

New Year, 2006

New Year, 2006

No matter how many of these first days
I have experienced,

no matter the arbitrariness of the calendar,
the clock, the people

count and measure with hope that this new year
will be different, better,

and I am with them in such hopes, so
I celebrate on quiet Jan.1,

I replenish the cat’s water bowl, I read
Mandela and write poems.

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