I pace my ordinary day

and fill my ordinary mind


with wonders I could only

take as vision or hallucination


because if I could avail myself entire

I'd be consumed in flame and smoke


and arise with Elijah's chariot

as one of his wheel's spokes


here then is where I contain

the wonders and measure them out


in the instants my being lives

in the vehicle of my ordinary mind


enduring my routine fate and relieved

I can only occupy the place where I stand





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