
a dragonfly lands
on a lotus seed head
without making sway

a dragonfly lands
on a lotus seed head
without making sway

two red bugs mate
on one side of a tree;
on the other: orgy

the moth is still.
is it alive or dead?
how patient am i?

How much grander must the world seem
closer to the ground,
a grass forest within the forest
with layered forest sounds?
Or would one be cut off from
the vaulted dome of sky,
and have one’s world shrink to
the limits of one’s eye?
If an ant thought it saw everything,
but only viewed a slice,
would its tiny ant mind have contracted a basic human vice?

a grasshopper
lands on dappled granite;
becomes a statue