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(A morning walk in Humboldt County, CA)

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Recorded Reading (2:01): https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6urtdq3crpvkt6/Nature%27s%20Wave.mp3?dl=0

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Nature’s Wave

I walked to town this morning
Through a world bursting with life
The birds went singing through the trees
Looking for this season’s wife

Every bush was laden down with
Blossoms by the bunch
Appreciative bees approached
Dreaming about lunch

Buzzing over flowers
In jeweled carpets lie
Beneath majestic trees growing
Quite cathedral high

Even common dandelions
Such as elsewhere we all know
In ultimately fecund soil
Veritable daisies grow!

Surfeited by magnificence
The eye comes down at last
To million hights and thicknesses
Of ordinary blades of grass

And as my soul luxuriated
Their abundance in
One of their number, midst the throng
To wave at me begin

Neither the blade just to its left
Nor that just to its right
Danced as it did, rhythmically,
For my amazed delight

No animal stood underneath,
For none of which I know
Moves in such wise as so would make
A blade of grass above to go

Just as I’d about decided
It stood a narrow draft within
I saw one more, and just one more
Identical motion begin

Standing not near the dancing first
Nor sharing line of any breeze
It moved just as the other had
Languidly, with ease

In perfectly repeating
Rhythm in adagio
Subject to no stimulus
That I could name or know

A few yards on there came a turn
And I looked back to see
Those same two blades, and only two
Still waving lovingly at me

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