Work begins
with fed cat
on the windowsill
with butt in chair
Ears to be perpetually tuned to TWBS,
the wind and bird station
even during the big meeting
especially within the mundane
Good work for pirates
with tied tongues and agile fingers
who delight in looking silly on paper
and lighting the fireplace with old resumes
Good work for the remarkably interested
in everything
and the remarkably bad
at caring about when they showered last
or brushed their hair
Good work for souls inclined
to bow before nature
and stand up
to words
For those not long bothered by the labels
pretentious,
self-centered, and
useless,
except when the page itself
softly nudges delete
Good work for hearts
sometimes embarrassed
by how much they love
stunning broken places
and glorious piecemeal selves
Good work for those
with gratitude unshaken by humans
most days,
yet rattled,
and able to move in a flash,
when the dog farts.
Finds wild peace within rivers
in the wandering
the wondering
the longing
and the looking on.
Within the never knowing
the wading in slowly
and the jumping
all in
Sometimes prepared
always surprised and utterly delighted
when the whole bloody mouthful
falls away
into
grace.
Apply within.