Dish Duty Is Tai Chi

Work in circular rhythms:
clean circular saucers
with circular strokes,
with singular swipes,
perfunctory wipes,
sliding dips and sudden drops,
dripping lifts and smooth loud stacks,
whacking buckets, ringing pans,
shuffles of steel,
shuffles of hands.
From the circles whole systems:
stars, satellites,
the universal girandola,
emanates,
radiates.

— 1992, from Poems