queen of swords

[my nana, turning 95 last week - the hotlips are a nice touch,eh?]
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I've said before that every craftsman searches
for what's not there to practice his craft.

A builder looks for the rotten hole where the roof caved in.
A water-carrier picks the empty pot.
A carpenter stops at the house with no door.
Workers rush toward some hint of emptiness,
which they then start to fill.

Their hope, though, is for emptiness,
so don't think you must avoid it. It contains what you need!
Dear soul, if you were not friends
with the vast nothing inside,
why would you always be casting your net into it,
and waiting so patiently?

*Rumi
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what I'm listening to: "Stray Age," Daniel Martin Moore, repost