Reflection - Poetry Jam

Reflection

I sat last evening and looked across –

no, through the yard and marveled -

what light and life and space is here!

On one plane -

I threw a Frisbee for Pete and Mimi.

Their wonder was the arc of flight

and the fight for ownership.

On another plane  -

The birds jostled the feeder.

They chortled, clicked, fluttered …

branch, perch, across the meadow to the pines.

Still, in another plane –

A frenzied swarm of gnats.

Their wonder seemed the cool air currents -

Whirling in a vortex and sweeping upward.

Entering, from another plane –

there came a squadron of dragonflies, dipping.

They gnashed and clicked their way

Darting through the swarm.

Mimi stopped mid-play, stopped and

watched what she could not compete with.

Her look of wonder mirrored mine, I’m sure.

I sometimes pause when I shower.

I stand and think in the steam –

Just stand -  thoughts follow invisible planes

The water runs down my nose –

falls to the shower floor.

I watch the path of the droplets the entire way –

through space and time and thought to the spatter.

Sometimes my life is in focus.

-Susan Miller-Lindquist 3/20/13