WINDOWS

There are worlds within worlds.

Just peer into the leafy shell

of an abutilon

and you will see

a kaleidoscope of patterns and textures

and perhaps a shade of green

you have never seen before.

In this moment this flower

will seem more like

the glass work in Chartres

than a blossom in a nursery in Albany, CA.

The truth is: both are

wonders of the world, windows

touched by heavenly light.