This year

I resolve
to build no weapons of mass destruction
nor to lie about other countries doing so
in order to justify invading them

I resolve
to listen to Bach's violin concertos
early on green sunny summer mornings
and to play John Coltrane late at night

I resolve
to honour the growing dead not by grieving them
but by keeping the best of them alive in memory
every day of my life

I resolve
to take photographs only in black and white
and to develop them in the sacred dark
with silver bromides acids and magical light

I resolve
to listen to wind play in wolf willow and sage
and to pick out and hear each of its voices
as carefully as I choose the words on this page.