New beginnings

American Life in Poetry

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We three at American Life in Poetry, Ted, Pat and Cameron, wish you a happy and wholesome 2021, and here’s a poem to celebrate our friendship with you and our 15th year of weekly poems. Warren Woessner is a poet and a patent attorney who lives in Minneapolis. If you’ve invented a new kind of poem and want to get it patented, well, he’s pretty busy and probably can’t help you with that. His newest book is “Exit – Sky” from Holy Cow! Press.

New Year’s Eve

5 p.m., corner booth,

Oak Bar, Plaza Hotel,

New York City, Center

of the World of all

that matters.

Where a Belvedere martini,

up with a twist, contemplates you

like a languid gold fish

in a clear garden pool,

or a suspended tear

that you can take back inside,

like that first full breath,

in case you need it,

as the world gets ready

to start all over again again.