✨ New Year’s Observation from the Bench

come and gone...

New Year’s Observation
from the Bench

A spring and summer,
a fall, has come and gone

and still it hangs
tangled in the branches—

a white grocery sack
torn        into pieces,

making it both simpler
and more difficult
to bring down.

—Will Willingham

Used by permission of the poet. Photo by Paige Cody, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.