Happy New Year

I am looking
in your little snowy windows
at the last
of this year

dark out here
light in there

for an arbitrary line in the sand
I am surprised
at the sense
of ending
it provokes

goodbye
the year you were three
goodbye
the year you were five
goodbye
heady new friend
goodbye
old soul and home
goodbye
leap of faith
goodbye
oh civic, my civic

goodbye
to this

you, in there
little snowy windows
are we all tonight
doing what the grieving do
gathering
hunkering
reviewing
staying up late
going to bed early
drinking it all away
trying to catch
a little
universal

I don't know
I don't care
happy new year
my loves.