Water creeps up the sides

of the stainless steel sink, melds

with tangerine liquid soap,

creates rainbows encased in bubbles.

I slide in ornate flatware, muffin tin,

slotted spoon, alabaster ironstone

platter, China bowl with blue irises.

I slip into blue irises —

blue irises open like a palm to the sun.

God is in the pots and pans,

I have heard, everything

is simplerwhen becoming the act.

Ornate flatware muffin tin, slotted

Spoon, alabaster ironstone platter,

China bowl, blue irises in the garden —

a palm filled with sun.