Reasons to Go On

New Year’s Day, 2024
after Ocean Vuong


Because the stream’s awake
             and it’s making the sound of a thing
doing the only thing it can.


Because the glass Christmas balls
             must come down
             from the reaches of the silk floss tree,
my head among planets.
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