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So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.

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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 FoundationNaomi Shihab Nye, “Burning the Old Year” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems Portland, OR: Far Corner Books (1995)

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