Not Yet

What when, since then, access denied to

the joy of our uniting, so what will this

beginning give us when returning to it?

Yes, it’s a beginning, with no more

numerology calendar weighing down the wall.

Here I am video-game brained

unashamed of extra lives

and wouldn’t you say everyone’s rooting for us;

the creatures and the culture

Pantone made “cloud dancer”

color of the year,

the first white-shaded, fresh-paged year,

optimistic enough until I spy my dirty cuffs,

so they’re on board with bad intent, but as a January

baby I know it’s still the Year of the Snake

baby, I know it’s still the Year of the Snake.