This is the time of year when we think about bleak winter ending and bright spring beginning. Now is the time to deep clean the house, thoroughly rake the yard. And yes, a time to imagine new beginnings for ourselves – discard the old and put on the new! Cathy offers us two poems that reflect this urge to start anew and how our busy daily lives might have something to say about that urge.
DEEP CLEANING
Cathy Ross
It is time to clean
the closets of my life,
sort through the boxes
go through the drawers
sift through the layers
to uncover what’s still there.
You see, I’ve forgotten
what I have, lost track
of fragments of myself.
Mired in misfortune,
I took refuge in routine,
traded novelty for safety,
put parts of me away
until another time.
Now I must go looking
for what I set aside, find
the promises I made, remember
who I used to be.
Too read Cathy’s previously published poem, “I FINALLY GOT IT TOGETHER . . ” – click here
