body and spirit

Embrace your physical and spiritual natures as one.
Is it even possible to separate them?

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, translated by Robert Brookes

Make much of something small

Bounty
by Robyn Sarah

Make much of something small.
The pouring out of tea,
a drying flower's shadow on the wall
from last week's sad bouquet.
A fact: it isn't summer any more.

Say that December sun 
is pitiless, but crystalline
and strikes like a bell.
Say it plays colours like a glockenspiel.
It shows the dust as well,

the elemental sediment
your broom has missed,
and lights each grain of sugar spilled
upon the tabletop, beside
pistachio shells, peels of clementine.

Slippers and morning papers on the floor,
and wafts of iron heat from rumbling radiators,
can this be all? No, look — here comes the cat
with one ear inside out.
Make much of something small.