Saturday, March 11, 2023

Essential Gratitude

 

Sometimes it just stuns you

like an arrow flung from some angel's wing.

Sometimes it hastily scribbles

a list in the air: black coffee,

thick new books,

your pillow's cool underside,

the quirky family you married into.


It is content with so little really;

even the ink of your pen along

the watery lines of your dimestore notebook

could be a swiftly moving prayer.

--Andrea Potos

[Saturday morning coffee]



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