…a reverie of imagination

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Time becomes energy.

The clean slate waits for the first mark,

she will make that stroke

when she is ready,

she moves beyond not knowing,

as she unwinds the calculus of understanding,

and lightly trembles

with the gentle passion of curiosity.

She learns new tools

and learns that mistakes can be erased

after they have done their work.

Persistence is a new glee,

she turns the cat’s cradle of unknowns

in her reverie of imaginations,

and forgets to look up from her book,

learns to welcome the gestalt

of words on the previous page…

she coolly adds 137 and 319

in her head,

and with her chalk pencil

she writes the secret sum.

November 14, 2020

Inspired by Die Hausaufgabe (The Homework), painted in 1893 by Simon Glücklich (1863-1943)

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