this mystery without words follows me into my life.

The world outside my door that takes what I have to give when it knocks

Not begging but asking all the same

When I answer and go out into this world for the minute or the month even the year it asks for, I am not alone.

I send out my work

I wrap and ship my beauty

I label and name what has become material

And behind it all is the effemeral, always changing. This is how the ones unbeknownst, begin to be drawn in.

I go out

And the mystery goes with me. not alone in unknowningness.