Sunday, January 4, 2015

A Chapter Starts

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"Under a Full Moon"
by William Woodward
Full moon, good omen in the sky
as one more chapter in my life begins.
Most chapters are, I find, the
open-ended kind that could go on
and on until the day your die. (Some
chapters, that is what you want. Not all.)
It happens that this one is finite,
of the sort you think about like...
even if it's bad, it  only lasts a day,
or week, or year, and you can get
through anything for just a day or
week, or year...but I expect,
anticipate, that when this nine-week
chapter ends, with all its challenges
and mental stretching, I will sigh,
not from relief so much as wondering
what I will do with so much time.



(c) Ellen Gillette, 2015

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