SHIFTING

You can feel things shift when you

switch on the lights, or turn the pages 

of certain books, or see the juice

in a grapefruit flow across your fingers 

like sweet streams. You know that things 

have shifted when you sit in a chair

and it’s not just a chair but a seat

on a spinning planet. There are major shifts 

when a small thought rolls along 

and loosens a thousand others. Also, 

feelings that start to fly can cause 

flocks of them to take to the air,

and take you along.