San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly

Katie Ryvolt
BABY STEPS TO PERFECTION

Ink Blots,
stumble along barely able to be read,
raw in their entirety,
Slowly, Patiently,
reshaped,
revised,
rethought, ever so carefully
until ink blots become words,
that now form a sentence,
the sentence, being read,
forms meaning,
Meaning, births importance,
and purpose,
purpose after purpose,
until,
one day along comes a period and completes the thought.
Perfection.