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rheaitis ([personal profile] toujours_nigel) wrote2019-04-24 09:00 pm
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The Patience of Ordinary Things, Pat Schneider

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?
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[personal profile] brainwane 2019-04-24 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
This, too, is great!

What sources do you use to find poetry? I recently found Mark Doty via a recommendation from a friend, but otherwise I haven't been paying enough attention to find new favorites except through blog series like yours!
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[personal profile] musesfool 2019-04-24 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this one!

[personal profile] sajia_kabir 2019-04-25 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for all these wonderful poems.