New Year

The dates on calendar question
all my undone actions

and memories that  haunt or fade
in nightly nakedness

stumbling toward the  next day’s sun
without celebration

at 65  January jeers
my degenerating sex

a still itch: mantra and mirror
quiet God and drying petals
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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