J. Ruth Kelly

Intentional
Mindlessness
Piercing
Evasion’s
Rancid
Virtue
Into
Outright
Unashamed
Sensuality

Instinctive
Mischief
Pounding
Earnest
Righteousness
Very
Intensely
Out
Unearthing
Soul

Intent
Meant
Passionately
Enough to
Rouse
Vivacity
Instead
Of
Untimely
Surrender

Indestructible
Motive
Producing
Elegant
Resilience
Valuing
Intentional
Opulence
Upsetting
Slavery

Intensity
Marrying
Poise
Erupting
Richest
Value
Intuitively
Ousting
Ugly
Stagnation

No matter how serious, intense or mournful, no matter how valid the grief or how overwhelming the path of gradual release, never lose the imp within who cares not one whit or wit the daunting trail behind, before or minds the endless railing stop signs, who laughs at the notion of burden and dances the feet to places of abandon, rest and the best world of mischief. Never lose the imp impervious grown wise from wounds, daring still to howl at the moon and awaiting the break of day. The imp impervious is the element of soul not defined by Webster but giving deeper meaning to “unaffectedness,” a word whose value is priceless in times of daunting and haunting ventures and is given life beyond cold indifference, infused by the impish play of dancing away from fear and flying past, with golden-hued grafts, the truly overwhelming odds to creation.