COPACETIC

It means in excellent order.
It’s order we search 
for as the years pile like silver and copper coins 
thrown randomly in an open mouth glass jar.

And, for most, order is collected 
in the chronology of the making–
the retelling of stories, each tale rimmed 
with knowledge that good can be gilded 
in every simple task:

quiet dinners, long walks, the dog fetching sticks and bones.

I think I will stop here.
So much good that for a moment, 
we can stare straight 
into that ordered light
and not be blinded.

Laurie Kuntz’s books are: That Infinite Roar (Gyroscope Press), Talking Me Off The Roof (Kelsay Books), The Moon Over My Mother’s House (Finishing Line Press), Simple Gestures (Texas Review Press), Women at the Onsen (Blue Light Press), and Somewhere in the Telling (Mellen Press). Simple Gestures won Texas Review’s  Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won  Blue Light Press’s Chapbook Contest. She’s been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net Prizes. Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, and other journals. Happily retired in South Florida, she lives in an endless summer state of mind.  More at: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1