THE OPTICS OF POETRY

The optometrist, the ophthalmologist,

the optician, the  optimist and the poet,

put all those letters in front of us -  

and we tell them what we see and

what is better than what we saw

just before that. “What do you see?”

The poet shows us so many things

we’re missing: lovers kissing in the

corner; the dead flowers at the

cemetery; the driver who screams

when nobody will let them out

into the flow of traffic - then they

do the same to someone else

trying to get out of their driveway.

“Lord, help me to see what I’m

not seeing - what I’m missing.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018