Summary

In “Resolution,” “The Miracle of Morning,” the speaker wakes up, expecting to find “a world in mourning” (174). Instead, she finds “Something magical in the sunlight” (174). She studies the passersby. Although she feels “separate & all alone,” she and her people are “closely tethered” (174). In spite of grief, they “find hope,” giving their pain purpose (175).

In “Augury or The Birds,” the speaker says that augurs in “ancient Rome” did not “prophesy the future,” but sought the gods’ approval for “an action before it began” (176). The best way to “predict / The future” is to make it oneself (176).

In “Practice Makes People,” the speaker says that although making plans feels like a way to predict the future, “tomorrow isn’t revealed” (178). One must fight for the fate one wants. When the vaccine came out after the pandemic, the speaker found a sense of relief in this pain she...