So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.[..]
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
Lines to end the year from the poem of the day at The Poetry Foundation: Naomi Shihab Nye, “Burning the Old Year” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems Portland, OR: Far Corner Books (1995)
Thoughts?