what nature deserves from us

overwhelmed by nature

differentiation:

what a word!

I am out in nature,

and it’s as if

a slide-show of amazing moments 

rushes at me,

I have no hope

of really seeing it all,

I do hope to slow down, and differentiate,

to see and know one frame,

to hold it in my attention long enough

for me to appreciate how awesome it is,

and, by extrapolation, to imagine the awesome whole,

we visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium:

I could not fathom the whole, though I wanted to,

instead, I loved what I could feel a bit

as moment after moment,

overloaded my sensors of awe,

in nature we need to differentiate

so that the animal, the flower,

the way water dances with the rocks,

slows down for us,

we are overwhelmed as if in church,

at least in church in the way I feel 

God would want to make it so.

by Henry H. Walker

June 30, ‘18