JUST SITTING

(with Delycia at The Common Man Hotel, Claremont, NH, 8/27/2014)

Sitting with tea in our hotel room

reminded me that some things

are nearly always sitting. The stones

in riverbeds sit still for centuries

while the water washes and polishes them

so kayakers can see them sitting

and shining in their places. A lamp

sits on a table for days and days

and doesn’t move, whether sorrow surrounds

the people in the house, or joy joins

their hands in reassurance. The lamp

let’s things happen while it just sits.

The hotel, too, takes its time

and simply sits where it is

as we and the planets and stars swirl

through this leisurely universe.    


                                  The Common Man Inn, Claremont, NH