Train tracks in Rome, New York. Photo by Francis DiClemente.

Landscape

Beauty abounds.
Just look around
and you will see—
a quivering leaf,
a patch of grass,
billowing clouds,
and a slash of light
beneath the bridge.

It’s not a bad world, really.
We just need
to train our eyes
to gaze with wonder,
and marvel at the
transcendental pageantry of life.

It’s there before you.
But first you must
ZOOM OUT—
ZOOM OUT
and refocus the image.
There. Hold it.
Do you see it now?

Originally published in Sidewalk Stories (Kelsay Books, 2017).