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       New (to me) POEM!
       By: Lurknomore Date: May 18, 2023, 2:47 pm
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       Small Kindnesses      D Lameris
       
       I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
       down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
       to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
       when someone sneezes, a leftover
       from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
       And sometimes, when you spill lemons
       from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
       pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
       We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
       and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
       at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
       to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
       and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
       We have so little of each other, now. So far
       from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
       What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
       fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
       have my seat,” “Go ahead—you first,” “I like your hat.”
       This was on menu (!) at oldest hotel in WA state ( Tokeland
       Hotel) we had the incredible luck to visit last wk. The entire
       place is so peaceful. This poem brought tears I found it so
       lovely, and so needed these days. And the food was amazing too.
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