January Begins by Carolyn McCurdie
For New Year I wish you Janus, the god who looks forward and back, till his pupils dilate, intoxication of distance. On your calendar it�s his month. Here is the photo he hangs on your wall: salt caravans in Niger, from a paraglider, so high that camels seem strung as if notes on scribbled staves of song. On the horizon, a thin sprinkle like fire-blackened grain: another caravan. One way