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GOD DRAWING IN THE SKY

(For Liana and Michaela)

A man, gray hair and beard, bulky sweater

walks in the garden; iris and lily shoots

knife their way through the soil;

pale cherry blossoms float like gauze

among barely budding trees;

ferns unwind their tight spiral

through leaf mold into pale spring sunshine;

hemlocks leave dappled shadows on a white house.

The man takes a hoe from the shed

and, as he weeds, dances from plant to plant

like a bee looking for nectar.

He looks up, startled by the red flash

of a cardinal; lays down on the grass

to watch the clouds. His granddaughter

skips out of the house, sits next to him,

“Grandpa, what do you see?”

“God drawing in the sky.”