In the Details

Be specific.

Reference the details of the day.

Don't generalize about "lunch" or "dinner".

Instead say the annual hamburger

dressed in Korean flavours.

Say burrata, spread on

home-baked flatbreads,

with oven-roasted cherry tomatoes 

whose caramelized sugars surprise the burrata

with tart and sweet.

Say cranking the oven to 500 degrees

at 7 in the morning

to bake the mongrel-seeded sourdough loaf

that rose all night in the cool of the fridge,

wrapped in its linen shroud.

Be specific.

Love is in the details.

 

 

 

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Questions and Answers

I've always been glib.

The philosopher studies the question,

ponders it, seeks the right, deep, answer.

If I seek any answer at all

(and I admit it: being human I do seek),

I'll take the first one that comes along.

 

Not true!

You've got to watch me like a hawk

to keep those quick untruths

out of the permanent record.

 

So. Not the first answer.

But any answer that suits.

That's it in a nutshell.

My answers, seldom unassailable,

can be attacked from all directions.

But I don't care.

To suit me,

an answer just has to get me through:

through the day, through the dark night

(actual or of the soul).

An answer just has to shield me

temporarily

from the slings and arrows, etc.

 

And when my defenses are breached,

I'll be off to seek the next answer.

For me, answers are written in sand,

not stone.

 

 

 

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Stitch It Together

A default position of mending,

mandated by my mother's example

and by my natural bent toward thrift,

teaches me the beauty of the stitch.

Glitzy sequins hide the join

of leftover sewn to remnant.

Feather-stitch embellishes a seam.

The whole is a cosmic crazy-quilt

of stars and fiery comets

in the service of waste-not-want-not,

never just a make-do affair

but an opportunity to fire up the blaze,

to illumine the ordinary by shine and sheen and spark.

Stitch it!

 

 

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