Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The Zen of a February Field



What is there to learn,

what is there to discover

in the chilled depths of solitude at dusk,

afield in the creamy, melting snow

with the wind on your face

under the rush of wings,

a low wedge of geese passing over

with sunset on their breasts,

at the seam of the earth and the sky,

at the seam of the day and the night,

at the seam of the past and the future,

on the thin, thin edge of the present,

what is there to learn?

Something. Anything. Everything.