You see the words
when they’ve been ordered,
arranged like rocks
in a tidy Zen garden.
I see the words
as they casually fall,
shaken from my head
like elm leaves.
Some cascade for hours,
Chinese acrobats
that toss in the air,
tumble through streets,
trail off into the unknown.
You never see the jumble,
the windswept disarray,
the random heaps of flora.
Yet once or twice in a lifetime,
the perfect leaves fall free,
plummet to the page
in just the right spot
with just the right blush,
as though ordained by God
or delivered by genius,
the million to one chance
that miraculously
beats the odds,
becomes the ch’i
of heaven and earth.
Feng Shui by Scott Wiggerman | Garden Lavender Poetry Reed Diffuser Set
Albuquerque poet and artist Scott Wiggerman is the author of four books of poetry, including his newest, Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals and Golden Shovels, a collection inspired by lines and themes of Emily Dickinson. Wiggerman is the co-organizer of the annual Albuquerque Poets' Picnic at the Open Space Visitor Center, as well as co-editor for two decades at Dos Gatos Press, which has produced numerous books of Southwestern U.S. poetry.
