JUST  LOOKING, 

JUST WATCHING 

Poem for Today - Friday - September 26, 2014

BACK PORCH FUNDAMENTALIST

In the afternoon

he chose the corner in the sun.

Then he set his porch rocker

facing the mimosa

where gold wires

of light tapped

the leaves, and he, himself,

by a simple act of seeing

observed a miracle.

If anything is, he said,

them pods

on this tree is the keys

of the kingdom.

© Maura Eichner  page 144

in Upholding Mystery,

An Anthology of Contemporary

Christian Poetry, Edited by

David Impastato,

Oxford University Press,

New York, Oxford, 1997