#NewYearNewYou
RISING
I see the future
And see myself rising from
The palest ashes
A Year Together and Apart
Love crossed an ocean
as if she manifested
from my wildest dreams
Plant a sunflower
or two even more
precociously
A new calendar
makes so many promises
until it's opened.
Trinity
It is the same. Still
different. Complete. Lake-Mirror:
Green moon as island.
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Night wraps around me
a cloak of fur and sweat, bone
becoming the wolf
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I keep two faces,
nerves gazing back and forwards
onto long, clean seas.
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Tongues craft oaths, hope drifts
across midnight's equator -
promise sets our sails
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Magic exists you know –
Resolved to share mine this year:
Stories from the heart.
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letting the past die
galaxy far, far away
no drunk dialing
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Cold midnight moment
Severs past night from future day
Repeat, reinvent
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A bowl full of luck
Black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day
It’s a Southern thing
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May I discover
every gift brought to me
during this new year.
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Next Year's promise is
to submit poems and stories
to cracking journals.
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