The Joy of Unseen Things

Scouring the Northern Lights for a sleigh full of toys
and sleeping with assurances of things to come even
though no reindeer were spotted

Upturning stones to glean their treasures:
Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera and rolly-pollies;
the ground, full cities; insect-dotted

Being the kite – dragon-wings unfurled,
knowing the full
lay of the land

Star-riders, hopping between planets –
three-quarter time of the stellar dancer
taking your hand

Aurora-borealis, the night-painter, unseen;
like the artist of Morpho-Menelaus – patterns
etched onto Nature’s palate, exquistely drawn

The lightness of hope – stead-fast, stalwart
and always at your side,
carrying you to each new dawn