Photo by Ellen Lowery
Reality
Have you wondered
Why the power
On this earth
Is so often wielded
By those unworthy
Of the task?
-Phil Hinderaker, 2004
BWCA
From
Stones, weeds, bits of life—
smoke rising through
a tunnel
past piney fingers to arching milky blue and dark
Stars piled and jumbled.
What holds them there?
What are the outer limits?
Where do things stop?
Down here, below, reflections rippling
Repeat the questions.
-Mim Weber, 2002
What matters most to you in this moment?
When is it difficult to hold onto an attitude of respect, worthiness?
Universal Mechanics
What
wound up the world
to its present motion—
sea to cell,
worm to seal,
seed to tree?
We,
blessed and cursed
with our devotion,
seek to find
what mechanism
spawned us—
air, earth, water, fire,
the singing choir
of sons, daughters,
mirth and tears.
What inspires our need
for laughter,
slaughter?
We never tire,
but ask these questions
every hour
with every breath
from birth
to death.
-Ann Bushnell, 2004