New Year's Eve

Beers gulped into full bellies

Rise headwards, fuelling the gyrations.

Of dancers, slick like jellied eels.

Elsewhere men pour libations

Fluid to earth's ancestral thirst.

Liqueur and soil sound out a sacred hiss.

With dawn's hesitant light comes the first,

A new year to welcome with a kiss.

And new beginnings for midnight masses,

Worshipful in solemn places of prayer.

Festive déjà vu bids dying year ashes to ashes.

Rejoice, for He will many wonders perform

As cited texts float up in hallowed layers;

Litanies to an annual amnesia,

Same as before.