Enough of the lamentations.
[.poemindentmore] Open the window and sing! [.poemindentmore]
[.poemindent] The world is awash with [.poemindent]
world: color-dripping globe always
tilting into some Ah! or another,
clouds stretching wide plump happiness,
[.poemindent] even in the noisy stage-show of showers, [.poemindent]
[.poemindent] such sunny ovations. [.poemindent]
[.poemindentmore] And the birds— [.poemindentmore]
overpopulating every poem—
swoop here for free—
swallow, hawk, robin, gull, eagle—what else
can be written but wings that wave
horizon to horizon?

And enough of windows.
[.poemindentmore] Praise doors! Step out [.poemindentmore]
[.poemindent] with arms open, and eyes gathering [.poemindent]
[.poemindent] vim and vision: grandeur [.poemindent]
trailing from worm and woodchuck,
branch puzzles of woods, open boat of breeze—
all brimming with Hey!
[.poemindent] and Hallelujah! [.poemindent]
[.poemindentmore] and Celebrate! such green giving [.poemindentmore]
of thanks, such miraculous mercy of earth:
calm valley and even this rugged, rocky chain
we climb now as family, claiming praise as respite,
holding close each breaking day, dangerous
[.poemindentmore] yet divine in all [.poemindentmore]
[.poemindentmore] its gorgeous glory. [.poemindentmore]

[.imgcaption] [.smalltext] Photograph by Ray Hennessy [.smalltext] [.imgcaption]