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Stillness

8/23/2014

 


Standing as still as the harnesses and bridles hung in Atley’s barn,

I heard the breathing of two retired trotters.

Yesterday they ambled, slant-wise, pulling a buggy

filled with an Amish family.


Today they breathe

quietly resting in the shadows of the barn.


Atley stood at the entrance, murmured a few syllables

two Belgians appeared and stood still opposite their harnesses and bridles.

Atley moved the straps and buckles into place,

a settled man of some age and syllables,

his Belgians followed him to the plow,

attached and hearing a syllable, they began to move across the field.


The farm lives by the rhythm of the horse and nature’s cycle  

of plantings and harvestings.


Stillness, attentiveness, remembering what the fathers learned from their fathers.

Stillness first

is what leads to the beauty of the farm.

Is my life unfolding with stillness?

©John Holliger


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