Dare to Take a Walk Through It

A blessed secret gasp of freedom

runs through mid-November

when her cool constituency

realizes it’s not yet indentured

to a holiday – no need to be iconic yet –

now mid-November’s members

get to be for moments undefined –

no Christmas crush, and Halloween

is far behind, and even Turkey Day

seems just sufficiently remote

to make the middle of the month evoke

not anything at all but its sweet

unconsidered light and air. Dare

to take a walk through it: abandon care.

How lovely to find nothing there!

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