I marvel
at magical syllables
letters from nowhere
wild codes appearing suddenly
black elixir on white wonder
a channel of mysterious “who knows?”
I am currently marveling
how words puzzle together
making pictures & feelers pert
show & tell talking to the page–
mind radio on, the reporter
bent over in the light
to keep track of late night news.
Over & over marvelous 
keeps showing up w/o warning
walks around like it owns the world
writes me up & pens it down, cryptic 
messages from an empty envelope
spilling out poems

& I get to watch.


for the poets
from ‘Life on Earth’ (Omerta Publications)