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2019, 5*, being, blue, child, clothes, doing, emptiness, light, mother, others, perseverance, Quakers, shadow, shape, silence, sitting, sun, thinking, walls, windows, woman
silence
there –
in the round
some threw fluting gapes
three to engulf the fourth
some were cleaved peacefully
head from leading shoulder
some wore a chemise, others a shalwar,
others a collar, one a hand-towel draped quickly over the shoulder be back in a minute
one projected flanks like enveloping wings
unaware as she nodded
her neighbour bathed in the same return, the other sat
comfortably on nothing at all
the man held the frame
with perseverance to allow the shape
the woman privately understood
most of what everyone thought, only the
child contained in the mothers’ arm
watched the walls dance phantasmagoric
and only the windows let in
the blue blue sun
Quakers sit in light to worship
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
being & sitting wormhole: ‘and is there homage …’
blue & windows wormhole: ‘from the cathedral window two stories / high …’
child wormhole: LIGHT HEARTED WILLIAM by William Carlos Williams
doing & light & thinking wormhole: Four Noble Truths
emptiness wormhole: none and all
mother wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – The Valley
others & shadow wormhole: poessay XI – piquant love
silence wormhole: travel // when I die
sun wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] – valley
walls wormhole: looking hard enough
woman wormhole: Pont Neuf, Paris, 1902
mlewisredford 
A serene poem, a lovely respite at this time. You made me look up Quakers and I found so much information on their view of worship. Thank you, hope you are well.
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lovely to hear from you, Sharon; I hope you are well too although I do know you wash your hands regularly
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