I Am Running Into A New Year
Published in
2 min readJan 5, 2023
after Lucille Clifton
I am running into a new year and I am not looking behind
at the places and people and the way we both knew this year
was the start of your leaving the quiet quitting the ebb of you
I have grown tired of searching for the meaning in your words
you say I’m thinking of you and the misnomer is not lost on me
and there is too much water under this bridge like floods, and
floods, and I have never…
