ON BEGINNING NEW BOOKS: January 2014

In praise of whiteIn praise of possibilityIn praise of poemIn praise of pureIn praise of salt and emptiness and snowIn praise of footsteps taken and erasedIn praise of nothingIn praise of breath and bird and treeIn praise of fallingIn praise of wingsIn praise of winterIn praise of endings and beginningsIn praise of blankBlank pageIn praise of mysteryof storyIn praise of ice and sky and moonof drift and shadowIn praise of words waiting to be writtenSo many wordsWaiting in the white
Malmo, MinnesotaSheila O'Connor