New Year’s Day

The rain this morning falls
on the last of the snow

and will wash it away. I can smell
the grass again, and the torn leaves


being eased down into the mud.
The few loves I’ve been allowed


to keep are still sleeping
on the West Coast. Here in Virginia


I walk across the fields with only
a few young cows for company.
People on couch
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