Genius, perhaps ...

"Every family has its inventor, almost always

without patent; one's father invented recessed lights,

another's great uncle a kind of screw ....

Pondering the immense fortunes we are not heir to,

 

we turn off the lamps in the room by pull-chain,

by turn-knob, by wall-switch (in this case two buttons,

one of which pops out when the other is pressed),

and by a small pole pushed through a lightbulb's base.

 

Genius, perhaps, is making anything

worth the world's stealing."

 

~ Jane Hirshfield, 1953- ~

From "The Four-Postered Beds of Mycenae"

Done