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January 1 | John Fox, PPM

Writer: IPM Team
IPM Team
Jan 16
1 min read
A photo of planks of textured wood with a poem overlaid titled "January 1" by John Fox. "New Year approaches / as a first and singular / day, whose morning-time / begins, like fresh linen smoothed / flat by the weathered hands / of this one life, laid down clean / upon a rough-hewn table / whose mottled grain and dark knots / of history and story / make a place for Presence / and possibility to sit down / together, to savor, to talk"

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This poem was included in IPM's January 2026 Newsletter.

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