# Magic

> Of Sisyphus and Laundry and Interpretative Dance

**Published by:** [Existential Liturgies](https://paragraph.com/@existentialliturgies/)
**Published on:** 2025-01-11
**Categories:** poetry, magic, liturgy, existentialism, mystery
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@existentialliturgies/magic

## Content

Unearned, she looks at me like a God I sigh, pick up a sweater Left arm, right arm, torso, hood Add it to the pile My folding laundry--to her--is interpretive dance She watches - mouth gaping, neck craned As one looks at a monument Pants this time The movements to her are mesmerizing Laundry is the boulder to my Sisyphus An unending, relentless task I am doomed to repeat until wealth or old age release me She witnesses the ancient ritual; steeped in magic and mystery An art I have taken years to perfect And What if When I look at stars Neck craned Mouth gaping Witnessing an ancient universe; steeped in time and mystery What if a weary warden guides the moon round again A tired mother gently breathes on planets to coax them round the galaxy What if the stars twinkle because a yawning custodian stokes their bright burning fires? Endless tasks, shaped by the perceiver Perhaps, then, all is gift and magic and mystery Sisyphus: keeper of his own key

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