ALL I KNOW

Collage by S. Auberle

ALL I KNOW

is that I am here

because many years ago

or was it yesterday

two ancient angels

looked down

or up, as the case may be

we really don't know

and saw a full moon

a warm June evening

a long-legged man

and a green-eyed woman.

The angels nodded and said

yes, this could work

picked up their dusty robes

and went searching

through the cosmic closet

for spare notes

unused by Mozart

a color or two abandoned by Monet

Whitman's discarded words

a few leftover snowflakes

a rolling green wave

a bird's wing and three glittery rocks.

They threw this odd combination

into a magic cauldron

stirred for nine months

and out tumbled me

an unlikely mix, confused

and searching for love

when all I really need to know

is that I am still here

on this day of shining sun and snow

desire coursing in my blood

groping my way through Paradise.

- mimi