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A New Year's Poem

For the New Year, Island poet, Emma Young offered her poem "Preparation" and William Waterway, his photo of the Winter Solstice at Gay Head Light

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PREPARATION

 

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The moment closes

in a glass jar

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with raised glass

ridges for the lid

outside, and inside

only water and two green stems.

 

Reaching high

a white tulip,

and in a low arc

pink bleeding hearts

open the next.

 

So soon we shall see

the character

of the new moment.

- Emma Young

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