NOTICED

When was the last time you noticed
a trapped bubble in an ice cube,
or a bird gliding, just doing nothing, in an evening sky,
or a dog in the corner adjusting its front shoulders,
or a little kid turning on a swing
to see her dad’s smile as he pushes the swing,
as he remembers his dad doing this to him,
or the shake of dark red Jell-O
as you spoon it out into a bowl
and then cover it with cold, bright, white milk –
or the kids on the sidelines in their clean uniforms
and the game is almost over
and you want to scream,
“Come on coach,
let these other kids into the game?”
and you hear God say to you,
"Melt! Glide! Hide! Do nothing!
Adjust! Swing! Smile! Push! Turn!
See! Remember! Shake! Scream!
Get into the game!"

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2008