As the Days Grow Shorter
Bending lower, we fondle
chipped bowls and stained spoons.
Contentment is imperfect,
truth a cracked glass.
Open the cupboards, out tumble
yellowing memories.
Does order begin with chaos?
Can we believe
a little silver polish
will rub the ache from long days
or must we cling to sticky rings
for fear of being erased?
~ Susan Ioannou
Susan Ioannou is a Canadian essayist, children’s writer, and poet, and author of the writer’s guide A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem. Her most recent collection Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth blends science and imagination to celebrate geology, metals, minerals, and mining history (see www3.sympatico.ca/susanio/feature.html).
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