my love affair with the world

my love affair with the world
Colors—regal dioxazine violet
indigo’s friendliness
warmth of cadmium yellow
Daphne odora wafting
through our yard in January
lures me to stay with its
tropical scent a few weeks
later, jasmine
What made all this? Too
vast for just showing
up, it radiates holy
This pull that draws
people together, not
sacred?
Blasphemous to me
Look around
really see


