That the branches of bare trees erupt
with bursting buds simply because,
so they tell us, the planet’s axis has tipped
toward the sun, is one wonder.
A larger one, it seems to me,
is that we walk past, heedless,
hardly noticing such marvels at all.
What a fantastic world, where
miracles occur in such profusion
that we barely give them
a ho-hum!