✨ Resolutions
memorize a Basho poem...
Resolutions
Wear nonsensical heels investigate the suspicion of doubt spend more time gathering stones date a baker and learn to taste the difference in flours impress vermilion upon a lip emulate spiders: touch everything first before engaging ask to be called Jane collect Janes paint the bathroom black memorize a Basho poem that is not about leaving call your mother only when half-drunk have an icon of Teresa of Avila beside you when you call study walls, what they keep in eat some animal you’ve never seen draw what that animal tastes like clean out the deep freeze in the basement call your mother Elizabeth as if by mistake attend a Beekeepers of America meeting read a biography about Amelia Earhart change the cat’s name to Amelia dream of Icarus pray beneath low ceilings. Maybe then.
—Anne M. Doe OverstreetFrom Delicate Machinery Suspended, T. S. Poetry Press. Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of T. S. Poetry Press. Photo by Kate Laine, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.





That advice on St. Teresa of Avila is solid.