Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Coming Clean (WC)

 


(Wendy Cabell, April 14, 2021, feast day of the above Vilnius Icon of the Mother of God, and of Saint Lydwina of Schiedam. Poem is today's NaPoWriMo poem. Though prompted from Sunday's Breathe/Read/Write with Lisa Freedman, poem is also a sort of touchstone for recent 'Be transformed by the renewing of your minds' retreat via Precious Blood Renewal Center (Liberty, Missouri). Image from here.)


Coming Clean


Laundry: related to laver in 

French and lavar in Spanish - to wash.


Travel: to journey , from travail (1300) 

to make a journey, originally to toil, labor 

(see travail). –Etymonline.com

 

Can't travel till get the laundry done, scoured

path so can think straight, journey on.

Can't travel till get the laundry done, it's flow

feet need, if they'll journey at all.

Can't travel till get the laundry done,

unless it's to Water we pilgrimage. In

that case, can't do the laundry

till we journey. Sigh of relief,

journey on.




*From prompt: freewrite as inspired by etymology of words laundry and travel; from Lisa Freedman's Breathe/Read/Write, April 11, 2021


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