If the Pot Breaks
there are still the shards,
mud, edges, clay.
Ask any potter.
No need to worry
about an earthen vessel
until
the pot cannot be used to hold
soup or flowers.
Still, the potter may opt
to throw it back on the wheel
and keep treading,
or
set aside shards
for healing instruments
to scrape sores as in Job’s day,
or to drive jagged edges
into the soil
to help earth seep rainwater.
Fragments, never worthless
unless
there is a turning away
from the relationship
with the potter.
there are still the shards,
mud, edges, clay.
Ask any potter.
No need to worry
about an earthen vessel
until
the pot cannot be used to hold
soup or flowers.
Still, the potter may opt
to throw it back on the wheel
and keep treading,
or
set aside shards
for healing instruments
to scrape sores as in Job’s day,
or to drive jagged edges
into the soil
to help earth seep rainwater.
Fragments, never worthless
unless
there is a turning away
from the relationship
with the potter.