There are places in this world
where I have stood and looked.
Not tourist places although
I have seen:
the Eiffel Tower,
the Pantheon,
the Parthenon, and
La Sagrada Familia.
In those places
I was rushed,
I was jostled,
I had to get through.
It was not the Grand Canyon
or Old Faithful,
or El Capitan.
There were park buses to catch.
No!
it was in the boredom
of my own back yard:
the emerald bug hiking a green leaf vein,
the flick of a white-tailed deer’s white tail,
the neighbor’s cute predatory cat
dangling a chipmunk from its mouth.
All I had to do is wait and look.
And believe there was something
worth taking the time to see..