Form your letters carefully and well

poems and commentary from a leaf

Tad Hargrave

posted this (and may other poems). It was too good not to share.

May you be nourished.

Form Your Letters by Antonio Machado

“Form your letters carefully and well.

Making things carefully

Is more important than making them.”

Every day is a basket we are entrusted with

Your very body is a basket that arrived onto the shores of this world

Sent from them

Through her

To us

Laden with just the gifts we needed at this time

And in this place.

Every lifetime is a basket.

And this yurt is a basket.

Tonight is a basket.

And I wonder, am I holding this basket of days?

Or am I being held inside of it and you have become the basket?

Or are you what has filled it?

Is this basket made up of my days or filled by them?

Or is it all of that?

But, maybe, also this too:

that you and I have always been the baskets of, and from, the Holy

**Don’t you remember how it was?**

Before you were born, you were given the basket of your body

Maybe you chose

Maybe one was offered and you said ‘yes’

Regardless of how it went, I see that you all went for the “good looking” model

And I don’t blame you

Why not be beautiful for a while?

And then there’s basket of your life.

Which, before you came, was filled with gifts.

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