Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Flash
















NASA Photo of the Sun's surface

Flash

Our thrasher flaps in the birdbath
The yellow puff of a flower soaks up
My eye squints through the lens of my glasses
As it comes to me from the car window
Angled blinding me unbelieving it to be the
Infinitesimal glint from the surface of
Our Sun

How could it be these red seeds
Surface deeper than any unconscious primal 
Understanding of the blaze nourishing the buzzing
Insect in our garden seeds millions of degrees
Hot
Keep this bee in nectar
Keep us 

Guarding our eyes from the quick flash
Of seeds  that will turn our planet speck to ash


-Jack 4/21/10



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