Uncover the Sun

Pause

 

let us take

a brief pause

in our regularly scheduled

human mayhem

 

to hold a pine cone

and notice the seeds spiraling

in orderly splendor

of reproduction

 

and how the fern knows,

without complex calculations,

which way to reach

for the sun

 

and how flowers,

making no distinctions,

blossom sweetly

among the weeds

 

and how stones come to rest quietly

where they are placed,

and even earthquakes

open in a line we call fault

 

and how humans

in their civilized fashion

may be

the wildest things here