The Miracle of Want

Lives can do without a mind
And without design, but not,

With all due apologies
To Anne Stevenson’s flowers,

Without desire. Whence cometh
Desire, unfortunately

Is a question that no one
Has adequately answered.

Mythology’s circular,
Desire begetting desire,

And organic chemistry
Has only gotten as far as

Here there be hungry cycles,
Or, ok, somewhere near here.