do you know any poems about / mentioning january for us capricorns?
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, from “Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog Post Days, A Biography From the German”
“Like you I
love love, life, the sweet smell
of things, the sky-blue
landscape of January days.”
— Roque Dalton, from “Like You”
“The warmed-over bones of January.”
— Jenny Xie, from “Zuihitsu”
“How can I feel so warm
Here in the dead center of January? I can
Scarcely believe it, and yet I have to, this is
The only life I have.”
— James Wright, from “A Winter Daybreak above Vence”
“This mouth the last
entry into January, silenced
with fresh snow crackling
on the window.
And so what—if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight.
Only to feel this fully,
this entire, the way snow
touched bare skin and is,
suddenly, snow
no longer.”
— Ocean Vuong, from “Devotion”
“Maybe January’s light will consume
my entire heart in its cruel rays.”
— Pablo Neruda, from “Sonnet LXVI”
“I emerged one January
Into a different world.
It made a lot of sense,
Hidden away, as I had been, for almost a life.
And I entered it open-eyed, the wind in my ears,
The slake of honey and slow wine awake on my tongue.”
— Charles Wright, from “A Short History of My Life”
+ a bunch of poems literally titled “January”
“January” by W. S. Merwin
“January” by Betty Adcock
“January” by William Carlos Williams
“January” by Nancy Schoenberger
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