Field Notes #2

A Contemplative's Field Guide

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash

“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.”
― Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods

FIELD NOTES #2

While everyone marvels
at the moon blocking the sun
I'll be watching and waiting
		for sunrise—
it's easy to overlook
what most take for common.

𑁍𑁍𑁍

I'll admit  as a boy I believed
that eclipses and earthquakes were healds
		of the end,
overlooking the fact that evertime
a town goes up a forest comes down,
that mole hills and ant hills, beachheads and rivers
are daily subject to a judgment
all their own—and I, human as I am,
can't conceive of a world without
		my existence. 

𑁍𑁍𑁍

I like to imagine myself a simple man,
a sucker for early mornings:
		over-easy eggs,
		black, bitter coffee
		and the comfort of pipe smoke.
Of course I say this with a
wallet full of credit card debt
and a penchant for pretty things
no one really needs.

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