Monday Prompts 13: 'The patience of ordinary things.'
May's theme: Stillness
‘The Patience Of Ordinary Things’ by Pat Schneider
It 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 shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they’re supposed to be.
I’ve been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respe…
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