The Giant Question Mark

I've had it with giant question marks.

I know you think we are defined

by the eternal questioning, the questing.

But there are other ways to live,

some of which involve acceptance

rather than subjecting everything

to the giant question mark.

 

Easy for some,

this business of acceptance.

Easy when life is mild and the outside world

is free of random explosions.

I guess we live where we live,

take what comes,

and carry gratitude with us

in our everyday backpack of burdens.

 

I will reserve for another time,

another life,

the giant question mark.

 

 

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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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Writing Practice

My pen hesitates longly before it can engage with the blank, white page. Sometimes it's enough just to imagine writing. To let the thoughts, the rhymed and rhythmic sentences, reverberate within the skull's walls.

 

But the point of writing group is full participation, so pen hits page and words tumble as I let the somethings fall as they may (pieces? That's too mundane to have become a saying. Oh yes: Chips! Let them fall, those bits of the old block—old blockhead—fall as they may, scattering like a bride's rose petals onto the lines of my white page.)

 

Sometimes it's enough to wander without focus because sometimes that's all there is.

 

 

 

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