Of shell-strewn beaches and star-brushed skies
A force mysterious works time and motion
to place me on this street
you just turning a corner
as a yellow bus passes
and an egret lights on a palm
at an unlikely intersection
we break into smiles
involuntary
as lightning suspends time
then a rumble, a shiver
we sense some great alignment
Spontaneous smiles: the stuff of tides, currents, and earth movements. And of improbable meetings on distant islands.
Perhaps probability answers to a higher order.
to place me on this street
you just turning a corner
as a yellow bus passes
and an egret lights on a palm
at an unlikely intersection
we break into smiles
involuntary
as lightning suspends time
then a rumble, a shiver
we sense some great alignment
Spontaneous smiles: the stuff of tides, currents, and earth movements. And of improbable meetings on distant islands.
Perhaps probability answers to a higher order.