"The Patience of Ordinary Things", by Pat Schneider

Preparing my next workshop in Oregon, called "The Power of Presence", I began to read again poems from the incredible compilation "Poetry of Presence", that my friend Toni Goodman gave me some time ago. Thank you so much, Toni!

Here is this one:

The Presence of Ordinary Things

Pat Schneider

It is a kind of love, is it not?

How the cup holds the tea,

How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,

How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes

Or toes. How soles of feet know

Where they're supposed to be.

I've been thinking about the patience

Of ordinary things, how clothes

Wait respectfully in closets

And soap dries quietly in the dish,

And towels drink the wet

From the skin of the back.

And the lovely repetition of stairs.

And what is more generous than a window?

Check out "Poetry of Presence An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems"

by Phyllis Cole Dai, Ruby R. Wilson

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