[splendra]

PATIENCE-

Patience wears my grandmother's filigree
earrings. She bakes marvelous dark bread.
She has beautiful hands. She carries
great sacks of peace and purses filled
with small treasures. You don't notice
Patience right away in a crowd, but sud-
denly you see her all at once, and then
she is so beautiful you wonder why you
never saw her before.