happy new year

in honor of the season:

Let there be new flowering

let there be new flowering
in the fields let the fields
turn mellow for the men
let the men keep tender
through the time let the time
be wrested from the war
let the war be won
let love be
at the end

- Lucille Clifton (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs