Night In

There is a time of launching

and a time of waiting . . . 

There’s a rhythm here

I need to learn to master

Quiet music and a night in

with the two men of my household

(one reading, one dozing)

may help me ease into release,

the resting, falling segment

of the cycle,

the homeward downhill coast

which takes the gathered energy

and forms it deftly

into what its hopes directed it to be

So I can wait for it,

the effort done,

for gravity will take my work

and bring it home.

©Wendy Mulhern

October 17, 2014

Picture: Articulated Tsunami Vessel on base, by Jennifer McCurdy. Photo by Gary Mirando