'Start Close In' is A New Year's poem if ever I wrote one, but it was written at, and for, all those thresholds of our life where we need to find a tiny unilluminated footing in the dark, hidden deep inside of our sense of self. A place to step onto and place to step from. I'm very touched by all the comments to the post and all the lives the poem has touched in turn. My close in step in writing the piece has led to me holding so many other hands as I go , as we each of us, individually and communally, try to find our way into the next dispensation of our lives. DW