Day One

And what a lovely way to wake up--with my poem "Barefoot on the Pulpit" named a Verse Daily Favorite of 2011! Thanks, Hunter Hamilton and Campbell Russo, eds. of Verse Daily, I needed that.

Also, another Jack Gilbert poem, which reminded me of how I felt yesterday when I nearly picked up my hitchhiker:

The Abandoned Valley

Can you understand being alone so long

you would go out in the middle of the night

and put a bucket into the well

so you could feel something down there

tug at the other end of the rope?

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Yesterday's post was long enough for fourteen posts, so today, brevity.

Happy 2012!