POETRY | Guillermo Rebollo Gil I begin making resolutions

POETRY

I begin making resolutions

By Guillermo Rebollo Gil

To sit outside for thirty minutes with a notebook and draw a bird. To learn to describe the animal: It looks the same as the others around it. It’s brown. It looks nothing like the ones people post pictures of.

To go on a bird walk. Though, frankly, it’s impossible to get by around here without a car. Birds, I have been told, are smarter than we once believed.

Praise be to thoughtlessness, for I am innocent of ever believing a single wrong thing about a bird.

To repeat release until I feel lifted, grounded. To be okay with giving up. To learn to describe the way I look most like myself after I cry.