the second day

the second day
of the new year
opens
i can let something go
release
shift
move
clean out the gunk at the bottom of the vegetable drawer
stop
stopping myself
with inertia
i begin
again at the beginning
stop fearing
what can be feared
begin again
open the floodgates
call the hobby lobby shoppers
hear them in their togetherness
a duo
should be, could be, was a trio
for that moment
i return
to the place
i have and hold
as oldest
in my family of origin
there is us and only us
to hold on to
in the dissolution
of things dissolving

today we stop hurting each other
enter back in
complete