A Sense of Occasion

I got thinking about the phrase "occasional poem" - the type of poem that is meant to commemorate some special event. For me, any event that occasions a poem is special.

    A Sense of Occasion

Today is the anniversary

of this same day last year

and the beginning of a new

week, even if it’s not Sunday –

 or Monday.

And, of course, it is

the first day of the rest

of your life, but writers

should be restless.

Regularity is for bowels

not brains,

                     and when

irregularity rules

the occasional poem,

no longer confined

to coronations and

inaugurations,

will come more than

occasionally,

in honor of toothpaste

and twilight

and taxi rides, and

occasionally some

of them will last

for more than

whatever moment

they mark.