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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 68. Simplicity
Meditations on chores while in social isolation.
Simplicity
How does my cleaning this pot
please the order of things?
Does the act of making
its stainless steel spotless,
scrubbing faithfully,
align the stars?
When I restore the shine to its copper bottom,
and hang it with its gleaming peers,
do the spheres sing in greater harmony?
Yet it is in simple chores,
mopping the kitchen floor
or making lunch, perhaps,
that with Copernican clarity I recall
no suns, no galaxies revolve around me,
but that my orbit runs
around you.
If you have a comment or a cavil, don't hesitate to leave it here.
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