Holly Wren Spaulding

Holly Wren Spaulding is an author, interdisciplinary artist, and writing teacher based in southern Maine.

For A New Year

Let plain things please you again

and every ordinary Monday.

Bean soup in a white bowl,

firewood in your arms.

The weight of longing.

That you have survived is evidence

that nothing is assured

but you are lucky.

Looking up from this page

let all of it surprise you—

piled mail, other people, the air.

— Holly Wren Spaulding