[lit-ideas] Re: for a Monday

From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:06:36 +0900

Very nice, indeed.
John

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This found my way into my in-box in the wee hours this morning.  A lovely
> way to begin a Monday.
> The Patience of Ordinary Things
>
> by Pat 
> Schneider<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,cah1,dv,8mlo,gxhg,m9hw,l29c>
>  It is a kind of love, is it not?
> How the cup holds the tea,
> How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
> How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
> Or toes. How soles of feet know
> Where they're supposed to be.
> I've been thinking about the patience
> Of ordinary things, how clothes
> Wait respectfully in closets
> And soap dries quietly in the dish,
> And towels drink the wet
> From the skin of the back.
> And the lovely repetition of stairs.
> And what is more generous than a window?
>
> --
> Julie Krueger
>
>
>


-- 
John McCreery
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Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/

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[lit-ideas] for a Monday
From: Julie Krueger

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