NVN Thursday: LEAP DAY 2024
by Sally Zakariya
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In the fourth year the calendar cracks open and out leaps an extra day, neither winter nor spring but somewhere on the cusp, let’s say the cusp of March, itself a cusp of sorts somewhere between lion and lamb. So say you have one more day this year, another day to add to your store from birth to death over a lifetime, no strings attached, nothing expected in return. Outside a scurry of snowflakes dance on the early crocus, neither winter nor spring but somewhere on the cusp. What will you do with your extra day?
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Sally Zakariya’s poetry has appeared in some 100 publications and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her publications include All Alive Together, Something Like a Life, Muslim Wife, The Unknowable Mystery of Other People, Personal Astronomy, and When You Escape. She edited and designed a poetry anthology, Joys of the Table, and blogs at www.butdoesitrhyme.com.