A for Blog

Habits not haphazards
are needed
for the next decade.

“Keep desk tidy”
is not a habit
and you know it.

“Tidy desk daily”
might do the trick.

The quites loll on your kitchen chairs
The veries gallop free on golden hills
The scarilies frill next week and bless next year
The formerlies buckle their plastic corsets
The newlies colour the eye and ear
The finalies and the verilies
are why you’re here.

A tall thought
a built thought
is a dissertation.

A short thought
a wrought thought
is a minuet delivered.

When the light outside
meets the light inside
one beckons, one remembers.
When the bright outside
floods the safe and steady
put on your shades and go.

My thank yous
a narrow stack
of feathers

ancestors
no brackets
no staples

sliding up and off
the page, floating
without whom.

New year resolutions
are solutions.
Yes:
earn less
resolve less
read more Proust.

Each new year
more precious
because more rare.

Last year you were not
dragged away
last year you were saved.

This year may behave
but you and I
have one less year

and one more year
to live, to give
and not to save.