New Year Resolution
Entry by: Godai41
7th January 2015
NEW YEAR RESOLUTION
Evolution in One’s Hand
Still learning, the hand
evolves, sets out to teach itself
the basic thrusts, maneuvers,
gesturing, waving, joining up
with each other, preparing to sign a form, raising
itself,
wearing a ring,
writing
Tenacity
Skyscrapers stand side
by side here with
excavations miles deep.
Forests, caves, palm
trees--a home for
vipers, dogs, and
mollusks. I scrounge
daily here, gather
scraps of compost
to ready myself for
the spring. Under the
snow I exhale warm
waves of breath that
float to the top
of the world.
Evolution in One’s Hand
Still learning, the hand
evolves, sets out to teach itself
the basic thrusts, maneuvers,
gesturing, waving, joining up
with each other, preparing to sign a form, raising
itself,
wearing a ring,
writing
Tenacity
Skyscrapers stand side
by side here with
excavations miles deep.
Forests, caves, palm
trees--a home for
vipers, dogs, and
mollusks. I scrounge
daily here, gather
scraps of compost
to ready myself for
the spring. Under the
snow I exhale warm
waves of breath that
float to the top
of the world.