The Sight of You

Morning-heavy cobwebs

break against my face

and mayflies trapped in

June, held fast by silken

means, are wondering

why they are not me.

 

And nature teaches us to look up

and see the sprawling majesty

surrounding our overwhelmed eyes,

while cities teach us to look down

and watch that we walk carefully

without catching another’s glance.

 

Go then in to nature children and

see the majesty of god—

 

you’ll see it in the city, too

but differently, you see:

 

it’s the space between

 

the space between the

 

difference between free

and oppressive majesty.

 

I smelled you

briefly

on the street

today.