A Light Supper

When the Unwanted Guest arrives...
I might be afraid.
I might smile or say:
My day was good, let night fall.
You well find the fields ploughed, the house clean,
the table set,

and everything in its place.

 

--Manuel Bandeira

 

We move into another winter and it's cold outside.

What will 2014 bring? It's been a short while since

we moved into the 21st century. Numbers

like 2013 and 2014 are strange to me. It seems

like just yesterday it was 1981. There were still

many years left to the 20th century. Today it's

cold and the next century spreads out like

a blank canvas. Let me pick up the brush.