Little sparrow
crisp as nature’s card trick
finding banquet enough
among sand and gravel
I would live as truly as you.
Little spider
doddle in nature’s margin
deft cartographer
hanging your art
and waiting
I would know as much as you.
Little bee of joy
flying pun
nosing the erotic flower
I would live as generously as you.
Little worm
good humor of the dirt
waving nodding left and right
then going left
renewing the soil
I would live as peaceably as you.
Little frog
surprise of a dead leaf leaping
your one ballet move
then still
I would live as you
in the hand of God.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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