Reordering

I have a sense of things being reordered.  I wonder whether the new order will look like the old.  It is Advent 3.  We are always beginning again.  Sometimes we are oblivious to the fact.  Sometimes it hits us in the solar plexus.  Sometimes we take the instructions out of the kitchen drawer, unfold them, and consider the pieces.

I watch the world

As it strives

To reorder itself.

Tab A

Into

Slot B.

This end up.

This end down.

Instructions put away

In the kitchen drawer

Are taken out again,

Unfolded,

Wrinkles smoothed,

Laid on the dining room table,

Perused.

Tab A

Into

Slot B.

This is the top.

This is the bottom.

Find the sides that hold

The bottom to top.

Read the instructions

Again.

Tab A

Into

Slot B.