Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “In Defense of Messiness” by Heidi Greco, which first appeared in Poetry Pause in February 2020.

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In Defense of Messiness

By Heidi Greco

There is something to be said for the open sweep of an unmade bed,
rumpled from the tumble of early morning love. For the skeltered
pile of unwashed glasses, food-stained forks and plates, souvenirs
of last night’s drawn-out laughter.

Pieces of a puzzle strewn across the wooden table – their mix of
sprawling colours unlikely as the sea. Haphazardness of outline,
each shape curling on itself, looking for its mate amongst the blues,
all those improbable bites of sky. How much more compelling these
random broken bits than the finished square, mirroring the boredom
of the image on the box.

So much to be said for the chaos of things, how better this state of
endless ongoing entropy. Left to its boisterous ways, everything gets
messier, stickier – only more delicious. O for the happy slurry of life
than a house gone too quiet, too clean.

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Copyright © Heidi Greco

First appeared in Poetry Pause in February 2020.

Heidi Greco, a longtime resident of Surrey, BC lives with her partner in a house surrounded by trees, on territory of the Semiahmoo Nation. Although she writes in many genres, poetry remains her first and truest love. If you’re the curious type, poking around a bit will surely lead you to her website and/or blog, both of which might add a few details.

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