A hot beverage,
a spiral notebook, unused,
freshly cut grass,
new socks, still in the bag,
a book the librarian is going to share,
a newborn baby,
picking out colors for a new house,
the canvas, prepared,
White shorts,
can you feel that?
It’s hope, but it is joking
because
Hope is, I think, a court jester.
CLR 2022
