Scott Simpson · Poetry

The Shape of a Year

Use For Kindling · source pages 53, 54

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The Shape of a Year

We enter this season carrying

so much: the silence

of absence, the noise

of lists, the shadows

of what didn’t go right.

But love does not

wait for our perfection.

It shows up in awkward

Source page 54

laughter, in a fire at camp,

in the clink of a coffee cup.

It is what we give

when we think we have

nothing left—

and it is perfect.