Wednesday, December 31, 2014

December 31st

The red squirrel is terrorizing

the gray squirrel at the feeder;

neither knows that tomorrow . . .

this will all change.



The brown pond is refreezing

over dozing fish and frogs;

none know that tomorrow . . .

this will all change.



The Aztecs cycled through

two calendars, 360 and 365

days, which aligned to restart

once every 52 years,

and today some 40 different calendars

diverge on the date of the new year:

youths lollygagging into the year 26;

elders dragging past the year 7000.



Unlike us, the flora and fauna

non-mathematical,

will be nonplussed when tomorrow. . .

nothing changes.












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