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Woden’s Day
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Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes I just sits
—Satchel Paige
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Maybe a half-blind god
Is what we need
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It’s been a quiet
Afternoon, mostly
I mean, the cars have
To go by, though
There haven’t been so
Many and somehow
A blue sky with white
Clouds tampers everything
If only in the mind
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I’m trying to write,
And it’s not going badly
(though much of that
is left up to you at last)
Though I’ve said that
I’m not sure what
To put down next
It is a process, isn’t it?
A balance between casting
‘Round and thinking
Considering what breaks
The heart with enough
Reason so that
Someone else might understand
Maybe not so much with mind
But with the other
Sensing parts, the ones that
Must interpret the world
Around, deciding how to act
Right before its time
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Take a breath
The sky remains blue, even
Though the afternoon
Light is slanting a little more
Toward twilight
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We haven’t looked
The other way
God is still with us with
One eyes or two eyes
With who knows
How many fingers
To make or toes to walk
Among us;
We’ve taken a few specs
Of time to be somewhere
Else for a while,
A place where we don’t
Have to count
With the nation and the world
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C L Couch
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Photo by Will Paterson on Unsplash
DL8 2PS, Bedale, United Kingdom
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February 24, 2021 at 9:06 pm
It’s nice. I always loved that quote. Sometimes it’s nice to just “sits” and not think. I have been trying for that in hopes when I try to “sits and thinks” that it’s something worth thinking about (or writing about). Maybe soon… I hope you are feeling better?