The Undoing
by Mindie Kniss
by Deborah DeNicola
To wake without the hands of tomorrow’s clock,
the words of yesterday’s narration, the whole heft
of the personal—Poof—snockered away! Remains
of a morning shower, flecks of water where rain was.
Then growth. A hibiscus of infinite petals, stamen
and stems. Fragrant, extended seconds of presence—
Would that you were God, the conscious
creator in each apprehended linear segment . . . yes.
To do the minutia without worry in your own kitchen!
As Zen says: When you sweep, sweep. Oh the mercy, the ghostly
alchemy of not thinking. All one undoing of everything
in the mind. So to do without is more, is most.
Deborah DeNicola’s spiritual memoir, The Future That Brought Her Here, was recently released from Nicholas Hays/Ibis Press. A second full collection of poetry, Original Human, is forthcoming in 2010 from WordTech Press. Deborah edited the anthology Orpheus & Company; Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, from The University Press of New England.
