Ruth Holzer

Y2K

As the earth turned toward the sun on that first day of January, people around the world celebrated according to their customs: singing, dancing, praying, ringing bells. Knocking  back their national drinks. Embracing the nearest fellow human. Light spread inexorably westward and one by one the continents awoke to the new millennium.

Cape Spear dawn—
the usual
foghorns

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About the Author

Ruth Holzer‘s short-form poems have appeared previously in cho as well as in Atlas Poetica, frogpond, Modern Haiku, Presence, red lights, Ribbons, and many anthologies. She has served as a co-editor of Haibun Today and assistant editor of tinywords. She has published five chapbooks of free verse and ghazals. Her first haibun collection, Home and Away, was published in 2021 by dancing girl press.