{"id":2537,"date":"2026-06-21T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T00:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T00:35:06","slug":"21-summer-shards-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2026\/06\/21\/21-summer-shards-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#21 summer shards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The longest day of the year is here and it’s time for a pause. Time to trust the hours that have carried us forward into dusk and these long days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wait<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait, for now.
Distrust everything if you have to.
But trust the hours. Haven\u2019t they
carried you everywhere, up to now?
Personal events will become interesting again.
Hair will become interesting.
Pain will become interesting.
Buds that open out of season will become interesting.
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again;
their memories are what give them
the need for other hands. The desolation
of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness
carved out of such tiny beings as we are
asks to be filled; the need
for the new love is<\/em> faithfulness to the old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait.
Don\u2019t go too early.
You\u2019re tired. But everyone\u2019s tired.
But no one is tired enough.
Only wait a little and listen:
music of hair,
music of pain,
music of looms weaving our loves again.
Be there to hear it, it will be the only time,
most of all to hear your whole existence,
rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Galway Kinnell. from\u00a0Mortal Acts, Mortal Words<\/em>, Mariner Books, 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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