to have the strength to greet the day, to see with clarity,
feeling more than one can think.
To slowly and gently fix a collar spread—
stiff, but quite perfect.
To pluck splintered cedar trees
from brogue leather tips and to raise with horsehair,
strands of invisible thread,
and then to tie a bow—
loose and even, as if tailored on the fly.
Seamless it must look, to know how to be.
