If Today Were the New Year
Arbitrariness
of numbers and days. Today
could be a New Year too.
If today were the New Year,
I would open a beautiful new
black notebook, holiday
gift, think about
what word should be first
this year, what
I'd like to say, given the clean slate
because new years
whenever they begin, an excuse,
an occasion opportunity
to reconcile reconceive
to close and then open
to finally say