Dovetail

Circa 1972, near end of senior  year at Edgewood High School in Maryland.

Dovetail

1/13/10

This was old school method

for creating beautiful tight connection

when making corners for furniture,

or drawers in 'secretaries', dressers,

I've never actually made any

even with today's electric tools,

yet, I've come to appreciate

the craftsmanship, it's poetic nature

that speaks of real grace,

a clear vision and enactment

which performs it's unique marriage

between different pieces of wood

holding the sawyers labor history,

each stroke at precise angle,

afterwards looking inevitably at peace

being dependent part of whole,

and it's a supreme pleasure

looking back over accumulated years

to witness a similar perfection

coming from life's intermingled experiences,

where the dissonance and resonance

cut out the extraneous matter,

all that's worthy of forgetting,

while the real substance stayed

interlocking my soul and personality

in some destined natural alignment

born from rich interior world

becoming the physical outcome representing

hand hewn dovetail of existence.