Poem Written on the Last Day of the Year

What is it about the spruce trees in snow? 

Trains arrive and depart in their branches.

Other people’s childhoods are up there.

There’s a newborn girl and a man of his times near the top

where a star would sit if this nearest one was indoors. 

Outside the trees are ripe with souls,

dark, end of the year, 

souls in their soul museums. 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University