Welcome, 2008!

Just thought I'd commemorate my blog in 2008 with one of my FAVORITE poems of all time:

Open House

Theodore Roethke

My secrets cry aloud.

I have no need for tongue.

My heart keeps open house,

My doors are widely swung.

An epic of the eyes

My love, with no disguise

My truths are all foreknown,

This anguish self-revealed.

I'm naked to the bone,

With nakedness my shield.

My self is what I wear:

I keep the spirit spare.

The anger will endure,

The deed will speak the truth

In language strict and pure.

I stop the lying mouth:

Rage warps my clearest cry

To witless agony.

And apparently, this year is going to be juicy. Happy 2008, everyone!