A Light Bulb Moment Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
This poem is dressed in an apron and looks like housework, but the poetry is there in the corner, where a spider, fellow homemaker, gets an opportunity to escape or at least hide better. The scent of lavender in the mop bucket washes over the terracotta tiles, and for a moment I almost remember something, something like; light blue with purple makes a change.* Later, when I rub butter into wheaten flour between my fingers it becomes the grit an archaeologist removes to uncover precious artefacts. I discover domesticity is not important to the world of men. Gertrude explained it all: It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.* Siobhán Flynn *Gertrude Stein
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