Mountain Morning
good morning friend
Began the day,
standing with a cup of coffee,
on a globe that travels through space at 67,000 mph,
spinning at 1,000 mph,
so that the sun can slowly change the color of the sky,
all while I stand still,
without being hurled into space,
as hummingbirds danced around my head,
so that I could hear the beat of their wings at 70x per second,
watching their joy at twirling through the air with one another,
and sipping from cisterns of liquid sugar.
It's a marvel what you can see,
in your backyard,
in ten quiet minutes of a mountain morning.