Sometimes we move in unused ways
- both hands full, stood on one leg
reaching with the other, trying
at the hooked door handle
with the hand less-full, pulling open
to snag with free foot, and
- something happens, in balance.
Slight-to-medium shift, as support goes
near out of line, and the whole world
seems to stand on some brink! We pull
ourselves in, by the door
with one foot and pivot
in our accustomed way
inside. Back on firmer ground,
feeling sterner stuff - for the high,
for the risk unanticipated and won
through. Then we ponder,
how much of our comfort
and competence, our excellence
and grace as bipeds stems
from just doing things
not in an unused way,
but in ways that are used?
And then you may muse,
perhaps the same applies
to balanced thinking. And why
am I wondering this? Come, pull
yourself in
by the door,
with your foot
drawing safely back through
in a win.
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