If you are searching
sit in a chair by a pond.
Morning sky will set a half moon
inside your heart for nothing.
An ant will crawl over your bare foot.
Now one part of you knows a prayer the rest
of your body does not.
Wait for a peacock to wander by. It
used a tree last night to survive
the coyote song.
If you are still restless, walk the broken fields
declaring a treaty of bigness. Purple flowers mark
the surrender of stones.
When you are ready to get home take a right
at every dead tree, but be prepared to answer
what do you lose
what do you gain by walking
past this: moon ant bird song flower
stone dead tree
on offer.