Saturday, March 23, 2019
MAKING THINGS
It is the wear of the world
which makes each thing. This shovel
would not be this shovel but
for the work which shaped it.
That path through the grass would not
be that path but for the feet
which walked it into the earth.
All things come in due time as
we mark them with our touch,
as our insistence rubs them
from the idea of thing
to this very real suchness
now showing in front of us.
It's not the naming them but
the working them which makes them.
