Spring Communion

Swallowtail on lilac
yellow on purple
exquisite pairing

chippy house wren
drippy wisteria
in waterfalling masses

solitary star flowers
gill-over-the-ground
lovely white bluets

spring surprises
for everyday joy
in welcomed kinship.

Cosmic Gift

What stunning cosmic gift
wrapped in star-spangled night
for my short-sighted eyes

catalogued as M13
more splendidly known
Great Hercules Cluster

faint, visible, blurry speck
24,000 light years far
across intergalactic space

globular star cluster
aged 10 billion years
in its space/time evolution

sacred viewing privilege
into the endless immense
for this earthly denizen.

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Cosmic Faith

Faith in the endless immense
infinite in every dimension

reused, redeployed molecules
for insistent re-creation

absolute resurrection
of meaningful existence

truly glorious moment
for this terrestrial mortal

sentient being, conscious
of colossal, reworked cosmos.