Allowing the Journey, Part 3 (and 4)

 

I swallowed the song “the way knows the way” today,
and then robin-like, regurgitated and fed
its words to friends everywhere: Here is a foot
on the pathway to truth; get on, get on.  Let’s make
metaphor a shortcut instead of a puzzle.
 
The sun doesn’t read directions each time it turns.
Chefs need not use six recipes to prepare one.
Yet I check how to direct each time I stage plays.
And then, laying the books aside, noting past lives,
I hear my voice discovering, each day the way.

 

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© 2023 Susan L. Chast

Allowing the Journey, Part 4

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?                

The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.                   

Alice: I don't much care where.                                       

The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go                                  .

Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere.                                  

The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”     

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland