Almost Everything

with thanks to Anne Lamont


a dog coming into a life,
a baby being born, the garden being tended,
an election, a war,

told and retold,
sorrow, or hatred, or love,

begins with a story

 poets, and sages,
and painters and novelist,
and you or me

passed on by readers, and writers
and collaborators, interpreting,

imagining

almost every story can be designed,
to bring hope.

gkn November 2018