Taste of Heaven

We start to look away

from all the things we thought

we cared about —

mementos, milestones, celebrations,

everything we thought would mark success

The taste of heaven

tingling on our tongues

drives us, hungry,

toward something we’re not finding

in the old pursuits

We seek it

in every place we’ve seen it —

smiles of strangers, twinkling eyes of friends,

wild abandon of winter colors in the land

and the promise of souls touching

hinted in those

inexplicable

sudden moments

when the uncountable

Importance of Everything

gleams clear.

©Wendy Mulhern

December 16, 2014