DEEP IN THE MOTHERLOAD

On some mornings it seems like
you have to prop the sun up in the sky
(distraction after distraction
keeps the darkness present), and when
you get it up there, its word of advice is,
“Please be patient
with your life,” and nothing else.

Even the immigrants and pilgrims
forget what it was like to be new. Settled in
to their new existence, it takes awhile for them
to see things the old way. And the natives still do things
the old way.

(October 25, 2007)