If I am repaired, can we meet again for the first time, in all of the places I have feared to go, and then, again, in all of the places I will have forgotten, if I am repaired?




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Here is the desk drawer in which all of my odds and ends are kept, tidbits that would otherwise never see the light of day.











Sunday, February 9, 2014

On the Need for Constants


It was as if the house were melting, the leafless trees, the sky. Everything dripped and trickled. He stood in his pajamas on the back patio with the filter of coffee grounds in his right hand, listening. After weeks in teen and single-digit temperatures, the thaw was a moment to be savored. The thirty-four degrees felt like summer, like T-shirt weather. 

     He chucked the spent grounds out, into the long planter that ran the patio’s edge. In a month, the bare earth there he knew would be green with spears of day lily and tulip. The concerns of winter would be forgotten, long stored away, like his old jacket, in some slip of a closet beneath a narrow well of stairs. The chores will have changed, his clothes, his worries.

     He turned back to the house.  

     'As long as there’s coffee,' he said, raising the emptied filter in part toast, part request, to whatever force had brought him thus far without grave incident, 'We’re good to go.'   





4 comments:

  1. I'm good to go as well, have felt that way for the last 2 years ... 2 more years to go and I'll be out of here ... and on my world trip by ship ...

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  2. Steven, I so relate to this... have to have something to feed the soul or faith or whatever keeps us all hanging on.
    BTW, good writing!

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  3. I can just see you standing out on the porch tossing those coffee grounds =)

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  4. I fear we have all felt like this as the end of a long, cold winter draws near. It has tested our very souls.
    Not long now, keep the coffee coming.
    ~Jo

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