Pay More Attention

 

Pay more attention

to the Ordinary.

It is the altar

where miracles descend

like Spirit into bread -

this breath,

a deer trail

leading back to itself

in the little woods,

three unharvested tomatoes

glowing hollow

as lanterns,

a spider flinging its

silken path homeward

from your old garden buddha

to a withered rose,

or the last evening light

fondling small things

like the hand of the dying,

not with regret

but inextinguishable

gratitude.

Photo: My old bench in the yard