An Extra Day

For purposes of symmetry, the calendar needs to add an extra day, a Giveaway to make the math come out right, so that one more day can pass Into night — and I think of the people born on that day and how every four

Years they get a real birthday — and I think of the way the light stretches Thin as spring begins, and we speak of the days getting longer, although it Really is the light lengthening, sunshine spooling into rain — we look up in

Hope as though time is given to us in altogether new ways, each day a new Beginning, should we choose to see it that way — Leap Day, a day when When we perhaps can take a leap of faith and look ahead and think of the

Joys to come, a world anon, where there is enough mystery to keep us Guessing, as when the astronauts passed on the dark side of the moon — And how the light comes to greet us just when we might least expect it.