Wash Day
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. ― Omar Khayyám– after Stephen Dunn
...many a false step
has been made by standing still.
...So much that’s worthy occurs
by what seems accidental.
The great wisdom tradition books
couldn’t have been written by people
who thought they were writing
a great book.
Likely they weren't writing at all
but speaking with someone
who struggled to remember
and wrote it down as best they recalled
sitting in some shelterfrom a flood-like pouring rain
or a winter storm that froze
everything in place for days.
6.9.21 JB