Recently

No guru is likely
To write a bestseller
Titled The Power of

Recently. Recently
Is as close as you’ll get
To life in the present.

Might as well savor it.
Recently, the clouds raced
Like a quiet stampede,

And the trees waved their leaves,
And the body gurgled
Like a happy baby,

And the compressor hummed
From the empty kitchen.
Just recently, you sat

In your battered rocker
And thought, Now what is this?
But it was already,

Before you noticed it,
Which hasn’t stopped you yet
From repeating, Now what?