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Photo © Jennifer Wagner

 

When another new year trembles

beneath my feet,

 

golden

and merciless,

 

black

and heaven-sent—

 

the path obscure

but coming to light—

 

it’s never without thorns,

even while glowing.

 

Cohen said there is a crack in everything.

That’s how the light gets in.

 

I’ll forget my perfect offering.

 

The journey sometimes breaks me, but tells me, too,

the cracks are how

 

the light shines out of you.

 

 

© 2025 Jennifer Wagner

 

New Year

*Cooper

Photo © Jennifer Wagner

Your collar, green,

his, blue.

You, so polite,

of course, he bites

(as new things do).

But how much he looks like you—

the curl of his tongue in Snoopy yawn,

stretched out

on the rug

where you lay, it feels,

only moments ago.

© 2017 Jennifer Wagner

 

A Quadrille for dVerse.  Happy 2017!

*New puppy Cooper is bringing delight to our hearts after the loss of our beloved Labrador retriever, Druke, in November.