starting with i

starting with i

(“For from him, and through him, and for him, are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.” Romans 11:36)

Starting with i
unsettles it all.
Lists of colors embrace the photons
that shoot from grass, from neighbor houses,
from sky, from pets that brownly
run like foxes.

Starting with now
surrounds us all.
Some are a million galaxies distant
and closer than the itch on our skin.
It’s like a waltz, like a jig,
like a song that no one knows and
everyone sings.

Staring with eyes
sunrises it all.
Rivers are silver, sky is a painter,
footprints are warm sod,
wind is vocal. Breezes like
to whistle.

Sparing our voice
makes the rocks sing out.
Clear winter trees with arms spirit-moved
wait with feet in dirt from
meteors and asteroids,
earthworms and lightning strikes.

Starting with whole
surprises us all.