Happy New Year! We’ve turned the corner, turned over a new leaf, feel brand new with resolutions made (I don’t make them), a sense of looking forward to new adventures, challenges …
A CLEAN SLATE
laundered starched 
ironed and folded
not a crease or stain
to be seen
just brand new skin
outlook and year
the next days months
will give their share
of wrinkles scars
and everyday grime
without my having
to worry or work
at acquiring
any of them
‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art. From Inanna Publications, 2016.
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I do not make resolutions either, hope and try to do my best and to depend on people with the same outlook! Keep me in the loop as one of them for you..
I will happily loop the loop all year with you, Francine:-)
Happy New Year Joanna I hope 2018 is a healthy, happy and prosperous one for us all. Being a laundry nerd I particularly liked this. >