Artificial intelligence
ready and waiting
to bleach out our brains.
No more page-seeking needed
just vestigial monument
to bygone dictionary days.
Trees, like people, come and go
briefly noted, forgotten
importance in the present.
Sole worship of money
missing existence's point
when enough's enough.
Unforgiving parents
without any exceptions
Mother Nature and Father Time.
Button-bursting pride galore
for our Jonah and Sylvie
now newly hatched graduates.
Luscious, juice-dripping peaches
with southern, June greetings
to New England-distant kin.
Veritable bird spa spot
with all our backyard beauties
bathing in turn companionably.
Grape jelly and orange slices
sugary, grocery store fare
loved by more than orioles.
Taste of rich chocolate
with pinch of peppermint
deifying this moment.
Miracle elixir
by any measure
evaporating
condensing
liquefying
dissolving
diffusing
suffusing
solidifying
sublimating
freezing
melting
wellspring of life
and life's preserver.
Bonanza reveals
of cascading wonder
in the twentieth century
atomic strucure
relativities
quantum mechanics
DNA helixes
and plate tectonics
elegant theories
undisputed proofs
new organizing rules
from submicroscopic
to space/time expanse
how privileged are we
ordinary mortals
to receive these genius gifts.
