Poetry Thursday - Mornings Like This by Annie Dillard

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"Give me time enough in this place
And I will surely make a beautiful thing"
- this is something I say to myself quite often, as a way of paying attention to where I am and spending enough time and care to take in all that it contains.

The book "Mornings Like This", containing "found poems", was sent to me in the 1990s sometime by my much-missed friend Rita, kindred spirit and writer of prize-winning short stories ... and many cards and letters, which I have still.

"So brief - our best!
...
Give me time enough in this place
And I will surely make a beautiful thing."

- the same words, a different thought altogether... about where we are, and what is missing.