Luminous Beauty

Luminous Beauty

I walk and walk along the way

Sometimes with my focus mainly on

The obstacles that would cause me

To stumble

To take a tumble

Rey sees a rabbit, a squirrel

And pulls as if to give chase

He sees a friend—known or unknown—

And with his growl asks to be petted

We walk many of the same paths

Each day

We learn the patterns of some

With whom we cross paths

The writer who takes time to shoot baskets

            And loves to give Rey a tousled head

The dog who charges from across her yard

            But cannot cross her invisible fence

The gardener who is making order among her

            Seemingly chaotic plantings

But then I look up

And see a luminous beauty

Of trunks with shedding bark

The blossoms fading amid the leaves

And all my questions vanish for a moment

Of absolute delight

And pure joy