Inclination

Irony appears as a type of judgment in the Old Testament and casts its shadow on many that inhabit the ancient page. Irony is apparent only when our perspective forcibly changes and the chaos of things line up in a fateful way.

In my own life, irony casts a shadow after sudden, thunderous blows create a breach in the backdrop of what has been daily granted. The following poem is an account of one such alignment.

Inclination____________

When I read
how long the poet
took to finish her poetic deed
I want to hide beneath the rocks…
My inclination is to be done.

In culinary art
it is the same—
my wife forgetting how
others at a table will linger…
Her inclination is to be done.

Although our son died
days before being married
being buried close to a man
whose name is also Done.