This work is changing us.
We are tacked and tapped
and jostled and nestled,
whacked and wrestled
into a closer fit

This joinery, of old called harmony,
will make of us a sturdy structure.
What we build upon it — ah,
that is unfolding day by day,
in rhythm and in dreams,
in understanding and in laughter.
Maybe someday
we’ll have time to see it.

©Wendy Mulhern
September 7, 2018