Susan Beall Summers - One Poem

Seeing Infinity

 

Focus not on the forest

or the trees,

look for the small animals 

beneath the leaf litter:

snakes, toads, turtles.

Look closer, 

find snails, beetles,

fungus, worms,

and microscopic 

amoeba, paramecium, bacteria -

transforming rot into resources,

creating vital nutrients.

The lowliest comprise the base 

of all life where they digest and recycle.

 

Process everything at this lowly level;

find the atoms and split them,

transform matter into energy-

 

mushrooming above the canopy, 

through clouds, beyond our atmosphere.

to planets with their rings, moons, storms

to stars: giants, dwarfs, dying, birthing, 

headlines from hundreds of years past-

to the edge of our Milky Way, 

to Andromeda and

billions of other galaxies 

created by our searching,

beyond imagination.

 

See infinity in the smallest and the largest. 

Recognize the parts in the whole 

and the magnificence of universal light, 

feel insignificant 

except for the wonder of having a place

and a purpose to love all of it.

 

 

 

Susan Beall Summers is a positive and lively Austin poet. She has been published in Ilya’s Honey, Texas Poetry Calendar, Harbinger Asylum, Small Canyons & Anthology, Di-Verse-City, Yellow Chair Review, Cattails, Nothing. No One. Nowhere., and others. Mor info at www.tidalpoolpoet.com