Slow Drip

30 January 2012, San Francisco

For teachers & mentors

Intermittent plinks

drumming a pail

makes me wonder

if the pail will ever

be full. But life...

Life diverts my attention

until the pail softly overflows

and reminds me of the

vagaries of wisdom.

I decide wisdom is wasted

when hoarded in anticipation

of some future drought.