Many Wondrous Things Poem by David Whalen

Like a mist above a verdant pasture
bitter cold fog oer’ cold northern sea

Like mayflies dancing above a placid Kentucky river
a lake conjoined to the ocean, the ambivalent Zuider Zee

Like moss afloat upon farm ponds
Tall pines over cold mountain stream

Like phantasmic, Yellowstone apparitions
Appearing and disappearing in volcanic steam

These are only a few of many wondrous things
Of a most spiritual, amazing, mystical kind

You can’t hold in your hand or put in the bank
But can only sequester away in your mind