✨ For the New Year
out of where nothing stood ...
For the New Year
Now work: write, and make something
out of where nothing stood, or read, so that
pictures come forward, or what is still more difficult—
love, and then the nothingness makes no sound as it goes,
and the tree on the white ground begins a new branch,
though the axe and the winter considered it felled.
—Annie Lighthart
From Pax (Fernwood Press, 2021) by Annie Lighthart. Used by permission of Fernwood Press. All rights reserved. www.fernwoodpress.com. Photo by Tim Foster, via Unsplash.
Oh.. this is a good one!
"make something
out of where nothing stood"