New Year
I've resolved last year's resolutions
watching this bonfire fail to flame.
I've ignored December's iterations,
unsolved my consolations:
a card, a call, a paper crane's blame-
less fractions of the same.
I can't solve for time's absolutions
watching these embers fail to flame.
Copyright Credit: Michael Prior, "New Year" from Burning Province. Copyright © 2020 by Michael Prior. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. All rights reserved.
Source: Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., 2020)