“These are days.”
10,000 Maniacs
The Life of a Day
By Tom Hennen
Like people or dogs, each day is unique and has its own per-
sonality quirks, which can easily be seen if you look closely.
But there are so few days as compared to people, not to men-
tion dogs, that it would be surprising if a day were not a hun-
dred times more interesting than most people. Usually they
just pass, mostly unnoticed, unless they are wildly nice, such
as autumn ones full of red maple trees and hazy sunlight, or
if they are grimly awful ones in a winter blizzard that kills the
lost traveler and bunches of cattle. For some reason we want
to see days pass, even though most of us claim we don't care to
reach our last one for a long time. We examine each day before
us with barely a glance and say, no, this isn't one I've been look-
ing for, and wait in a bored sort of way for the next, when, we
are convinced, our lives will start for real. Meanwhile, this day
is going by perfectly well adjusted, as some days are, with the
right amounts of sunlight and shade, and a light breeze per-
fumed from the mixture of fallen apples, corn stubble, dry oak
leaves, and the faint odor of last night's meandering skunk.
Tom Hennen is a poet from Morris, MN.
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All the best - RP