January:

January:

beginning.
rebirth given
by the turn of a calendar page
on your wall

that poster
with the balding man
trying to smile
as he thinks
haunts me sometimes
while you sleep

i thought of tearing it down

January
is a strange month:
it is beginning
yet here
(in Michigan, at least)
there is nothing but death -
endings

the trees are long dead
the grass under the snow
remains firm and brown
which puzzles me
because snow is water
i thought

January:
how Gregorian!
how droll!

January:
the sounds of garbage trucks
taking away a bum's only chance
for a meal -
aluminum coins
now gone

i am less hungry now
than in December