smally divine

we worship
sometimes through living

sometimes through talking
over
the smallest things
if to say
thank you silently

patience in the car or
in
our thoughts that run too fast

reactions to
most everything
with
questions
or apologies should there be an expletive
if mild
       if inside
still
to rub the slate a little more
here and there by hope
of
pardon not
to rasa
but
to have some clean spaces there
in hope of heaven
should it
go that way

c l couch

	
tabula rasa, clean (razed) plate meaning the state from which we begin and to which (on which) we add our experiences as we live on, John Locke being credited with the name and formulation, though the idea goes back to Plato and, I imagine, ancient others

photograph by Benjamin at Unsplash
available for hire [says photographer]
(the photo is not of my vehicle—though as goes the song I can dream, can’t I?)