All the Meaningful Noise

Scott Owens, owner and editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, is quickly becoming one of my favorite poets. I can hear and see all of this so clearly. Many thanks to the author. Shared with permission:

How can you be on this earth

and not close your eyes on occasion

and listen to leaves give voice to wind,

hear the laugh of crow,

annunciation of blue jay,

moan of mourning dove,

all the meaningful noise

of another spring day?

Behind the finishing plant

off the run-down road

between failing furniture towns,

a field is bursting with purple flowers.

If you close your eyes

you can hear the cosmos opening.

Scott Owens, Hickory, NC