wild grapes & oranges

are we too modern for miracles?

wild grapes & oranges

what is there to say about wild grapes
except that they are here.

is it important
No more important than
anything else.
No more important than
the oranges
in the Californian orange trees.

which always surprised me a little,
orange fruits in the green above my head
I had only seen them in their 
saturated grocery store stacks. Then,
Unexpectedly they are where
they are to be expected.

Oranges in orange trees.
Wild grapes on wild grape vines.
In the soil and in the sun,
and destined for some animal's
happy stomach.

The grape leaves like 
fluttering handkerchiefs
like elephant ears,
big and shady and welcoming
to this place where we tumble and roll
with the summer winds
under billowing summer skies,
and green grapes fulfill the
promise of spring flowers

In this cool, leafy secret
is there purpose in saying
the ordinary is marvelous
the ordinary is bright anticipation
the ordinary is miraculous.
We know this already.
We have oranges
and the wild grapes are here.