it’s one of those days
though when you really address it
every day is one of those days
in one way or another
the heat stiffling
nearly paralyzing air conditioner no longer something to decide to endure
without
it must
merton said these were penences
I find him after all these years of reading to be
proclaiming things to not so much make saintly statments
as convince himself
I’m not convinced simply
we humans are here and have messed up in heaps of ways
and done well in others
there is no penance for some ambiguous wrong
or right to live here now is simply
to carry on and choose good
or bad
and go on with that
we all after all
turn back into earth
the heat saturating us there
as well as the rains