Claire says the day will be one second longer.
Darkness will no longer exceed light.
But the weather is abysmal,
so
hatred of gloom is not an option. I want to live
to be ninety-five, too, and still be assembling
words into music
and truth. For now,
I regard a conference of stars, with fast-moving clouds.
Sometimes my dreams are like explosion
pits,
with scary lava. Yet the Earth remains constant,
tilting away from the sun and back,
like a robin
to a bare branch.
Be somebody with a body, the stars command;
Don't be a nobody. I know them
by heart,
as they sink and as they rise.
