How is it Possible?

How is it possible that the moon can bloom in the middle of the night?  Her light ephemeral jumping like a grasshopper over the edge, the edge of the world.  She glows in the wheat filled prairie down through the canyon land and it is impossible to catch her or to trip her up - cascading at the speed of light as she does and yet not missing a millimeter of coverage.  Even the tiniest jumping mouse basks in her light.

How is it possible that the sun, so far from us, howling against the summer heavens can burn us?  Even as he balloons up and up more and more brilliant, painting  earth her gaudy colors, burning the desert sand, exhausting the fox and hens alike, still he gives us life and without him we cannot live.

How is it possible that the air is sweet with the many odors of life?  How is it possible to smell the rain, a bundle of dancing wildflowers sweeping round my feet, the remains of the cooking charcoal cooking  fire.  Can you smell the snow coming?  Can you feel the air drifting over houses circling through barns and lungs.

How is it possible for water to cascade, to creep along the foggy earth.  Falling and falling she rises again of her own volition streaming in thunder headed clouds, dashing us with her lightening.  If we hadn’t been watching her, we would never have known the soft caress,  gentle hands fondling our naked being with their quiet liquid touch.

How is it possible for the woman to open her heart to receive a child - bloody and pasty from the womb crying for nourishment, demanding its life at the expense of what it does not know, devouring all within its infant sweet grasp. How is it possible for them to co-exist, milk flowing between them, warmth and words tumbling from one to the other.

How is it possible that there is or is not a god ( and where might this god be) disinterested as it is in the rain (set in motion) the moon and sun (swung by gravity’s tentacles) the windy atmosphere of life (swarming round the corridors of the earth).  Singing the light of life into motion - how is it possible.