Things Unseen

A bee past the hour of light gathering nectar on a clover,

Green caterpillars defecating silk,

One rose to bloom late in December, 

Radio waves blasting confounded propaganda,

Salmon jumping upstream to their baptismal birth to die,

An eagle watching fish from a mile up in the clouds,

A man delivered unto death yet lives another life,

Blind fish swimming in circles in a dank dark cave,

An ant gathering grub never to live to see it eaten,

Or a man believing in his fellowmen are his brothers.

- John Hardesty