This Is the Year

This Is the Year

This is the year we will always discuss.
We will stick it into our sentences
like thumbtacks into cork.

We will talk about the year's doubleness
and evenness, about how we filled
its round, moony zeros
with decisions.

Do you remember twenty ten?
We will ask each other
long into the future,
as if time were the name of a town
we still can't believe
we had the fortune of inhabiting.