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Astonished by porridge
by frozen ponds
by pocket knives
by matches
by barbed wire
by fossils
by Spanish galleons
by celestial navigation and
maps and globes and
tidal charts
astonished by whales
by wolves
by mint in springtime
astonished by crows, rain dripping off
by a waitress her sudden smile
by the sound of the highway
through an open window
astonished by Shakespeare False of heart, light of ear, bloody
of hand; hog in sloth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness,
lion in prey
astonished by a motorcycle at
night a shooting star
astonished by tornadoes
by snow and blizzard
by hail
by crushed pepper
by the mason's arm
by iron skillets hanging arranged
smallest to largest left to right
astonished by herbs in glass
by coffee new made
by thread-bare work pants
by horse shit
by pitchforks and hammers
by calluses
astonished by the cab driver
on pockets and pocket trumpets
astonished by roots
duff and ruts
in gravel roads
under a night sky
astonished by William Blake When the stars threw down their spears
And water' d heaven with their tears
by the Book of Common Prayer
and the liturgy for burial
at sea
astonished by church bells organs
and the forlorn call and clang
of buoys in mist
astonished by water
by piers and quays
by barges
and old men
on stone benches staring out
at sea
astonished by dragons
and armor and lance
and by your daughter's French her twelve page
story written on a lazy afternoon
astonished by harmonicas
by clean sheets on the bed
by wooden floors smelling of lemon
by linseed
astonished by a carrot with dirt on it
by garlic in its paper skin
by Dan eating a turnip
astonished by poverty
by tidal indifference
by your lack of money and the few things
you want for lack of same
astonished by your body the unfamiliar
slack and sag of it
by your wife for that matter
astonished by all good humans
astonished by antlers
by the hemlock tree
by stone fences
by cairns
by stiles
by windmills
by lighthouses
astonished by fifty pound bags of
gypsum
by lye
by rope and twine
by chains
astonished by cruelty and greed and by how
the corrupt worm
themselves into the bodies
of those who murder
astonished by tin soldiers
and rocking horses and wooden ducks
astonished by cemeteries grave markers statuary
in memory of
astonished by vines
by olives & grapes
by bread
by quail and venison
dumplings
by trout
astonished by zero and pi
by irrational numbers
and calculus and infinity and
by Zeno's story of the tortoise and the hare
astonished by the tango
by seizures,
and more saddened than
astonished by seizures
astonished by love
againe againe againe againe againe
againe againe againe againe againe
againe againe againe againe againe
againe againe againe againe againe
by your 90-year old father
by the dead rabbit on your porch
by your cats Biscuit & Joey
by anvil and
forge of the newborn's grip
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"Draw me your cell, deep draughtsman!"