NOW WHAT?

Sacramental Puzzling

When a piece goes missing

Photo by Katt Yukawa on Unsplash

Oh, for boxes topped
with pretty portraits and landscapes
reminding us how to reassemble
the pieces
of ourselves, our lives

when all is a jumble,
double-sided just to make it
more difficult,
and a corner piece goes missing —
deliberately, mayhap?

Perhaps I’ll cut a piece
from the Amazon box
I’d flattened for composting
and with hot glued faith

in the stars’ kind wisdom

fashion a cornerstone
trusting
my inner architect — wild Amazonian
high priestess of Athene and Aphrodite –
to rebuild the outlines.
Filling in
the rest of it
as needed,

piggybacking with me
astride Pegasus’s sister.

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2021