Knowhow

Knowhow

If birds and

butterflies don't know

the mysteries of life,

how can the poet?

Steel bars know

strength to knit

engineers' bridges wide;

the pen knows its

ink like the clover

knows its green.

The tree knows, too,

the soil undertrod

and how it is

to reach and grow,

and fall, while

stars all know

their own ways

through vastness.

All do.

How is it to be?

(5/29/10)