Automatic spell check

My internship supervisor has been insistent on my spell checking everything, even though it rarely has found anything spelled wrong.  I have always been a good speller.  Words now look fuzzy.  They shimmer.  If I have added or subtracted a letter, it is not as obvious as it used to be.  More reckoning.  I thank God for automatic spell check, even as I am only sort of grateful for its existence.  I would much prefer not to need it.  Reckoning, indeed.

This is another week of reckoning.

I will find more of what is true.

I thank God for automatic spell check;

When my eyes intuit a letter

That is not there.

Or conversely,

A stray letter that does not belong,

For example

An errant  i.

I have always taken pride in my spelling.

I could tell by looking

If something was spelled right

Or wrong.

Now it all shimmers.

Spell check gives me the red underline

To challenge that perception.

I am grateful

Sort of grateful

Kind of grateful

For automatic spell check

The red underline.

It shows me what needs to be scrutinized

Through the shimmer.