Bird for a Day

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Basic Step

Every dancer knows the way into a dance

is through

the basic step

a pattern that repeats and sustains

rhythm, posture, motion

stillness

and 

the space(s) in between

a habit of body 

as impossible to resist 

as 

breathing

even now

when I feel its call

I can fall into the sweet forgetting 

that deep attentiveness

requires

my feet seem to move of their own

accord

even though I know that's not how it works

(I know) how mercurial an effortless agility can be

and now merciless

is it any wonder

 I crave and cherish 

my moments of rebirth and return

Your words

Your words found me

set in motion

stories

stone & water

beholding

your words

found a heartbeat

sound in seashells
shifting 

blood & bone & memory

whispering tethered 

knowing

your words

knowing 

you 

found

me

Kids are funny

I sit on a board of directors of a non profit recycling plant. it's a great gig..... we do good community service and the plant employs several persons with disabilities in addition to supporting many projects in our region that provide programming for persons with disabilities. One of the fun things we do is offer tours for elementary school groups. the kids arrive and get the grand walkabout of the place and see how things work and then when they leave they get a goodie bag of swag that we put together from donations from other partners in the region. nice all around cooperation. one of the fellas who does the tours told us this little gem at the board meeting the other night.....

a group of 8 year olds are finishing up their tour and getting their goodie bags. in this particular collection of loot, among other items, was a calculator. the kids were poking around in their bags, getting a feel for their bounty, and one little guy takes out one of these calculators and begins to experiment with it.... and not a minute has passed when he declares: " all it does is math!"

out of the mouths.....