WHAT DO THEY KNOW?
Spiders? Where do they get
all
that web - especially when lowering
themselves from a high ceiling?
Birds? The 17th bird in a swarm of
167 field birds, how does it know
when the lead bird is about to spin?
Leaves? Do they feel the pain of
aging, losing their color, the disconnecting
from the tree that gave it life as it falls
to the ground? Do they relax and take it
all in because they know there is the Spring?
Gorilla? Male gorillas. Do wimpy ones envy
the big guy with the big voice, the drama,
the growls and all that chest pounding?
Bananas, apples, peaches and pears?
Do they know it when someone cuts them
right down the middle - that they are about
to disappear - as if each piece of fruit was
celebrating Mass and saying: take and eat,
this is my body I’m giving me to you?
Sun? Does the sun
regret sunsets?
Or does it know it’s going to get another
shot at this whole cycle again tomorrow?
© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2015
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