Random Cues

Week 28

Random Cues

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            1.   Any part of life’s everything can light like a grasshopper

                  upon anything.

            2.   Capture a grasshopper as I did once as a boy and you’ll

                  find you’ve lost it.

            3.   See that something, recognize its blessing, let it roll over

                  you like seaside mist.

            4.   Or riding in a summer car, your hand out the window,

                  fingers spread apart, wind weaving like fleece sliding off

                  your palm.

            5.   What a ride up your backbone to be barked at by a

                  gaggle of guarding geese—a fierce little scaring.

            6.   Something good just happened to me. What was it?

            7.   What, really, did the moment say? What was it I said

                  back with the tilt of my head?

Now

Every heartbeat

Is a gift,

you can’t count it.

Every chirp

of a wren

is a cell’s trill,

you can’t

claim it.

Every wave

of the deep grass

Is a covering,

you can’t

clutch it.

Every kiss

a drop of love,

you can’t

store it.

Every rebuke

is a jolt,

you can’t

bind it.

            Memory

can fool—

you can

use it

to hurt

yourself.

Life’s moment

speaks—

not in

muffled

tones.

How will

you

listen?

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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