On a grey afternoon
(it was not suppose to rain)
after errands to the hardware store
and messing with a database
(is this how I mend the world?)
tired and mindless, at the pace of ennui,
I walk out of the basement office
into the dreary parking lot
and there flits onto a dead branch
a goldfinch—a stray bit of sun,
yellow alarm, tiny shout of glory—
and, having made its point, flies off.
All the way home I breathe,
How can I not be grateful?
How can I not be awake?
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
August 29, 2019