cooking lessons

the patterns in
the sky
the stories
and the messages
         Orion hunts
         forever
         while
         the Pleiades escape
         forever
that do not
change

that do
but we don’t notice
any more than
noticing
the hands upon the clock
on the wall
or by the bed
or in
the kitchen while
we cook

thinking on results
though maybe
all the stories
that
returns us here
this day

stories in the sky
we have to have them
even as
an anonymous umbrella
‘til we’re told
what this group is
and what
it means

though we have
parochial in
the mean time
what the family members
tell us
what the world
teaches us
somehow or
rather through
indifference

told with care
the stories
we might own
that even
heal
maybe with laughter
first
and then
the learning kind
reminding us
that family lore
might matter most
to have us
rising
working
cooking maybe
in the morning
come
the evening

then maybe going for
the holidays
feeding
even more
more
story time

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photo by Gaku Suyama on Unsplash 
(one is looking up at
me
and-or to
the sky)