Monday, September 7, 2015

NOT NOW





NOT NOW


Be still, I tell
my mind, watch

the rise and fall
of the belly...

My mind, however,
has a mind

all of its own.  It's off
on its own jag,

at play with words--
its favorite 

toy.  

I have learned
from one wiser
than myself:
the trick is to tell
the mind, quite 
simply, and with quiet

insistence: Not now.

And yet not now
is sometimes not enough.

So it was
this morning:

the poem will out.


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