This week's poem comes from our beloved organist, Eric Machan Howd.
Pistachios
by Eric Machan Howd
It’s the ones
that don’t open
that mean the most.
We make the effort
think hard
about the approach:
use our teeth?
a pocket knife?
vise grips?
All methods
have their risk
and reward, yet
it’s the struggle
to discover what’s inside
that keeps us going.
Sometimes, we must
use another shell
to crack the meaning,
to open understanding
of what it means
to work.