sunlight on work table
& newly revised poem 

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condition report
 
 
 
blue pail with cream interior
sliver of sky 
sacred setting for milk
 
vessels of work 
imbued with utopian striving
 
 
each scratch dent chip abrasion noted
carried with extreme caution
placed on padding
 
everyday objects constructed with                inner energy
made with essences and enthusiasm
 
wrought for industry
fascile in hand
 
 
realized into a relic
symbol of something once caught on wind
torrent of energy infused with work
 
placed in heaven
victorious villages honed and hammered
embodiments of ‘good design’
 
 
what draws us like moths to
fragmentary flames
radiant rainbows
 
rigors of work and worship
symbols of a system that worked
 
equality prevailed
pacifism existed
materials mattered
not materialism
 
care and needs necessitated             kindness
 
 
where faults
faltered into fullness
excess extinguished
into solid cores
 
singleness into many
a whole made a  circle from a row of chairs

thanks to Lucia and Sarah for the editing magic at Blueshore Writers Retreat with Poetry Forge