Around and about New Year's

December 31 -- any year

fevered child restless
as New Year's Eve darkens
phoning regrets
~
snow
on top of the ice
New year's Eve
~
eleventh hour~
click of wall clock's second hand
ticking toward new year
~
New Year's Eve
a syncopated ticking
of the kitchen clocks
~
January 1 - any year
23 degrees
first day of the year, I read
Season's spring haiku
(for Carolyn Thomas)
~
January first
each dated tree ornament
a year older
~
replacing
old calendar with new
full of things to do
~
New Year's project:
finding the stuff I stashed away
before Christmas

c lovepat press 2009