Good Tree to Climb

The man said to the cat, considering.
The insects chorused in textured layers

As complex as an orchestra, but none
Of them interested in the whole effect.

The cat had gone somewhere, no one knew where.
These things happen. Details swim into thought,

The thoughts arrange the details, and thinkers
And talkers later argue over which

Details are morally significant.
Morals are insignificant details.

Ask the crickets. Ask the cat. Ask the stars
That fell while you haggled over details.