Silken Road (WC)

(Wendy Cabell, published in Writers at Play Presents: The Art of Letter Writing, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2023. From May 23, 2021, feast day of Pentecost (above), and on Jewish calendar is Sivan 12, end of Shavout fulfillment days. Feast day of the "You Are a Vineyard" Icon of the Mother of God, and of Saint Euphrosyne. Image from here.)

Silken Road

The ways thereof be fair ways, and 

all the paths thereof be peaceable.

-- Proverbs 3:17, Wycliffe Bible

Truth is, I'd rather be listening. Pen set down

every now and again. Story and fable and mind now at  

rest. Leisure's guest. The truth is the truth gets buried. Hence

its unraveling in tale. Easing of silken road. As for me (turning 

skyward): Mother, please tell me a story! Never ending, until 

You say so. The truth is, I'd rather be listening. 

* From prompt: freewrite as inspired by Alberto Rios' Even-Keeled and At-Ease, from Lisa Freedman's Breathe/Read/Write, May 23, 2021.