It’s poetry time. Let the prose wait for a week.
A celebrate quote from former New York governor Mario Cuomo states, “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
I don’t know about the work of politics, but I do think that prose and poetry do have seasons.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s, for example, is poetry time.
For me, anyway, poetry requires a certain expansiveness of brain space that the busyness of the world won’t always allow for. This week, after the run-up to Christmas with concerts and parties and shopping, and before the celebrations of the New Year and the return to school, is the perfect time to sink deep into poetry.
Delete social media apps, turn off the world, and sink deep into Mary Oliver, into Robert Frost, into Virgil.