Undoing the Day

Like Penelope unweaving at her loom every night

(though not for the same reason)

I practice undoing.

 

I do all day what is to be done

and when the sun sets

and darkness covers the land,

I begin the work of undoing.

 

These days

there's too much doing!

Random and frantic activities

fill my known world,

to no great effect.

 

It's time to think before I speak,

time to breathe before I plunge my poor body

once more into the pit.

 

If I sit for a while with my feet up

and my mind idle,

then perhaps at night there will be less to undo.

Perhaps sleep will be sweeter,

deeper,

when I don't have to undo the day's doing.

 

 

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