Moments Embraced
I’ve checked my Emails
and read poems online
in haste— one reading
always begs another.
The sun peers through the window.
I go back to a draft of a story
started the other day
and set it aside when I
get ready for work.
Memories know no time.
The housecat crawls up the steps
and I give him a few minutes
on my lap, but he wants me
the entire day.
The story I began won’t let go.
At the store we rush customers
through lines after brief conversations
but ask them back. Repeat customers
become friends of sorts.
Somewhere a child cries.
The story needs to be nurtured—
It must be looked at and revised.
Don’t rush me, it says
and I come back to the pages
each day until the story
grows into itself.
Every long journey starts with a step.
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