Presence

It isn’t a unifying force —

It’s much more gentle than that,

simple as sunshine, the present fact

of what’s here, of what properties

always are seen

in the way things move,

the way they interact

We can know we belong

in any here we find ourselves,

because we, too,

move like that —

gentle necessity,

the nature in which we rise.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 14, 2020