For the New Year, 1981 - Denise Levertov
[ID: A poem written by Denise Levertov, titled “For the New Year, 1981”. The body reads, “I have a small grain of hope- / one small crystal that gleams / clear colors out of transparency. / I need more. / I break off a fragment / to send you. / Please take / this grain of a grain of hope / so that mine won’t shrink / Please share your fragment / so that yours will grow. / Only so, by division, / will hope increase, / like a clump of irises, which will cease to flower / unless you distribute / the clustered roots, unlikely source- / clumsy and earth-covered- / of grace.” End ID.]













