Poems for the Smiling Heart

Change

The bee transforms the air it flies in
and the loon the water it dives through
The ant re-patterns the sand on its path
and the volcano brushes the seafloor crust

My thoughts glide
through the changing spaces of cedars
and sink gratefully
into grass and granite
changing their subatomic particles
forever

Gleaming ribbons of love
flutter down from the heavens
enticing passers-by
to look up
and wrap themselves
in new life.