For the Moment

I am having a wonderful time sipping swallowing black tea 

with milk and thinking soon I will be next to beloveds

kindling life force among us it's almost the new year again 

(again) how sumptuous the risk we together own

and grammar put in its place piggybacks on ideas and yields 

charm like bond returns in the best of times and places 

it's all tremendously unlimitedly joyful because 

I have rehearsed forgetting which turns out to be remembering 

after all but with a better frame for the picture 

I almost stop being myself and become some unanticipated thing 

perhaps by looking at the amaryllis Natalie brought 

and warned me to keep out of sunlight so I will and so I have 

and so is everything resembling that fresh past made whole present 

is it morning always this way of life is it transferable 

who knows this fulfilling daylight about to strike 

it's still around seven fourteen and I've been up for hours already