At Home for the New Year
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by William Coleman
We move together because the planets do,
because the snow that falls before us falls together, because the cells that move our toes to tap tap each other,
because our past has traveled everywhere we’ve been.
The same song that moves you moves me—
how could we move without the other?
Our days grow longer now that we’re at home.
We move together, love, to make our shadows one.
William Coleman is a high school English teacher in a public school in New Hampshire. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, and other publications. He is the co-founder of The Star-Splitter Academy, the former managing editor of Image, and the former executive editor of nonfiction of DoubleTake Magazine.