STARTER 1The Patience of Ordinary ThingsIt is a kind of love, is it not?How the cup holds the tea,How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,How the floor receives the bottoms of shoesOr toes. How soles of feet knowWhere they're supposed to be.I've been thinking about the patienceOf ordinary things, how clothesWait respectfully in closetsAnd soap dries quietly in the dish,And towels drink the wetFrom the skin of the back.And the lovely repetition of stairs.And what is more generous than a window?
Pat Schneiderhttps://patschneider.com/pat/the-patience-of-ordinary-things/
The Migration of Things
It’s kind of love - the Life of things
That don’t stay where they’re put but slide
From where you set them down, to play
Across the room and hide
Somewhere with things you set down yesterday
I put it down right here - then find
That it had crawled under the door
And buried in a heap of stuff
By digging out a hole, finding an unsuitable mate
And breeding offspring the like of which I never saw
That spread a trail of husks and droppings on the floor
What is that ?
On the horizon
What are these mountains , valleys, boiling lakes
Of tar. With bones of animals so huge they block the sun
A giant sloth is blocking up the hall
Harmless unless it’s crossed and then its tail
Could break you leg with just one swipe
Strange groans and crashes in the night
And something falling down the stairs
There goes another one
Here
Trump trump trump on heavy feet
It’s slowly sneaking like a snake of ivy
On silent wings, it’s coming here
Zig zag like a particle
Or like a rolling bank of fog
Flits bush to bush,on silent wings
Swinging trunk and flapping ears
Rolling hopping sliding jumping
Like a rabbit, like a hare
Like a rainstorm - like a bear
Creeping, leaping in the air
Like a snowball, on the chair
Anita Greg 10/03/2020
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