Naomi Shihab Nye: "Fresh"

To move
cleanly.
Needing to be
nowhere else.
Wanting nothing
from any store.
To lift something
you already had
and set it down in
a new place.
Awakened eye
seeing freshly.
What does that do to
the old blood moving through
its channels?



"Fresh" by Naomi Shihab Nye, from You & Yours. © BOA Editions, 2005.

Photograph: " 'Simple' Still Life," by Mark Longo (originally in color).