Breathtaking

What drew your breath away today,

encompassed it and

cast it to the clouds?

Was it the school of bottlenosed dolphins

or the black wing tips of seafaring gannets?

Did you witness the near-total eclipse of the sun

or the return of the Sturgeon Moon?

Have you measured the distance

to the brightest star in this night’s sky?

Have you determined the place

from which consciousness emerged?

I read about the monks who rowed

seven miles out to sea to secure the world’s end,

so I went out to see what they accomplished.

One thousand years later, it was

Breathtaking