Jane Wong
A New Year (Two Calendars Combined)

A moonlit harmonica is quiet as silver. Everything is night crowded and canned tight. Drums the little boys, sure-smiling girls, and fire sitting in a red, red, red.

Celebration means hats.

Moon cakes have serious packaging. Kissing has serious accident.

A stained dress in the trumpet sounding and recounting. A line of falling so as to catch the ball.

A homecoming opens doors. So many doors that doors must coming rushing through doors. An open arm an open cradle an open symphony of doors.

In the twirling, we are lost to the floor lost and more so more the stained dress laughing.

A resolution is a resolution masquerading as a revolution.

A roasting pig on a spit means careful where you sit.

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