We’ve gained an hour people like to say
as Daylight Savings Time has ended.
What to do with mine?
Finish that lovely book
bake a pie
write a poem
loll in bed
or this:
write letters to those I love
enumerating my small and large
admirations one by one to each
a flat out admiring list
Brothers sisters sons friends
even the special ones who’ve gone on.
Nieces and nephews one by one
Friends old lovers (now there’s a trick)
Just a list, a modest, no,
an elaborate accounting
Surely an hour well spent.
