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# Gitterdone
- URL: https://dianaludwick.com/gitterdone-6-09-draft/
- Published: 2026-06-09T15:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-09T15:53:00.000Z
- Description: “Gitterdone,” a musing on punch lists and to-do spirals, written Tuesday, June 09, poem 160 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, "To-Dos and Girl Dinner," by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.
- Author: Diana Ludwick
- Tags: 2026 Poetry Challenge, Poems, Clothes, Clothing, Dulles, Dulles Access Road, Exasperation, Executive Decisioning, Fast Fashion, Gitterdone, June, Mall, Mr. Man, Pandemic, Returns, Revolutions, Shopping, Solo Parenting, Sourdough, Sourdough Starter, Starter feedings, Teens, The Demmy, To-Do Lists, To-Done, #Migrated-1792872215677, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 20:03

Solo parenting and the tasks abound.  
Shuttle the family to Sunday services  
then rebound home to pick up my love.  
Drive on the Dulles Access Road   
at fifty-three miles an hour   
—'cuz of the two cars in front of me —  
then navigate a wide white water river   
of undulating, bucking cars weaving in   
and out of currents,   
popping out around luggage eddies,   
narrowly avoiding   
the gauntlet of sudden reefs   
comprised of jutting driver doors   
swinging out without warning,   
one and then another,   
and then another,   
none with any predictability   
nor lesson for the next incursion.  
  
Finally, Mr. Man   
reaches pique exasperation  
and decides to join the passengers  
dumping out mid-stream.  
"Where are you going!" I cry.  
"This is beyond,   
I just gotta get going   
or I'll miss my plane.  
Love you!"   
He calls over his curved shoulder  
as he tucks and rolls out of the vehicle.  
We have become part of the chaos.  
Well, I have — left to man this ship.  
  
A few harrowing moments   
of high intensity defensive driving later,   
I am back on the freeway,   
headed home   
to a week of executive decisioning   
without the benefit of my partner.  
  
"You've got this, lady!" I rally myself.  
Back home, it's time to hit the To-Dos  
to get them To-Done.  
  
The heart of Capitalism  
the local Mall   
on a Sunday afternoon,   
so relaxing, okay, not really.  
  
One of many revolutions   
to the local fast fashion   
teen clothing retailers   
to return clothes purchased   
on a whim   
and wisely determined   
not to belong in the closet.  
  
Somehow during the day  
I eek out time to 'search up'   
and create my first sourdough starter  
since the dark, lonely  
cloistered days of the 'demmy.  
  
Six years later, and still  
the idea of crafting flavor out of air   
and water and ground grains  
is a thrilling act of patience and faith.  
I mix up my murky,   
lifeless Day 1, feeding 1 batch.  
I place on its little linen bonnet   
and I wait.   
Check — one more item off the list.  
  
Last on my long to-do:   
write poems.  
Lately, this is how it has been.  
Creativity has found itself  
in the backseat of my life  
waiting, patiently, with faith,   
for me to return to my open page,   
to my keyboard, and *Gitterdone*.