Are you trying to figure out what
you learned?
from this past year?
Are you trying to carve out
your takeaways?
As if to memorialize yourself this
moment as a statue hewn
& chipped and shaped-by
what was taken away?
Or are you adding it up by what
you put on... like a sweater
on a spring day
when the birds taunt the
cat through your open window?
and it's nice but the breeze feels a little cool
and empty.
Are you trying to smooth the rough
edges? Are you grinding them
down or subduing them like
your hand rubbing over the wrinkles on
your bedspread.
However you shape them,
call them out.
Let their workings find their
way into
your fingertips.
Stop being quiet about
taking and wanting and
asking for what you need
from it!
Plant it in your tongue.
Small Burdens 