i have the totally delightful pleasure of hosting emily and her gorgeous "love-bug" of a golden this weekend...and as a result, it has been a weekend already bursting with love and joy and delicious food and long walks and fabulous company & conversation...
em brought me this poem to perfectly encapsulate the essence of what i am realizing is true wealth, true abundance in this life...and this is, essentially, wonderment over the essentials, the simple miracles. the meaning of this poem by kay ryan (the current poet laureate of the us), "that will to divest," is perhaps a little different in its intention than what i am taking from it; she talks about the fact that so much poetry is excessive and in reality, she believes that less is more-- precision is the key...applicable to everything though...
Meaning:once
you've swept
the shelves
of spoons
and plates
you kept
for guests
it gets harder
not to also
simplify the larder,
not to dismiss
rooms, not to
divest yourself
of all the chairs
but one, not
to test what singleness
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