To the New Year
I will allow
the slow spiral
of my life
to take one more turn,
as if unscrewing
the cap on a bottle
of New World wine
of uncertain maturity
and depth;
or perhaps like the more brutal bite
of steel thread
into the yielding, cautious cork
of an aging claret,
not knowing when,
without warning,
it might give,
and pop.
And then I will drink,
heartily, and with other people’s wine,
to this year to come.
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May you all have a very good 2013. Salut!