Arts & Entertainment
A New Year's Poem
For the New Year, Island poet, Emma Young offered her poem "Preparation" and William Waterway, his photo of the Winter Solstice at Gay Head Light
PREPARATION
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The moment closes
in a glass jar
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with raised glass
ridges for the lid
outside, and inside
only water and two green stems.
Reaching high
a white tulip,
and in a low arc
pink bleeding hearts
open the next.
So soon we shall see
the character
of the new moment.
- Emma Young
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