It’s cara cara orange season and I’ve been buying bags of them and they’re so pink! and sweet! “But then I peel an orange” and yeah, it’s all pretty amazing when you think about it.
I Feel God in This Chili’s Tonight
by Lyndsay Ruth
Have you had a strawberry lately?
Seen a little birdie drink from a puddle?
Beheld how the mist kisses the lake?
Pondered the voting system of bees?
I’m often awestruck
at the spiritual fixation on the afterlife
when this one is right here, right now–begging
for the kind of care and curiosity that
devout folks seem to save for Kingdom Come
Some days I look around and think,
What in the hee-haw hell is this?
But then I peel an orange or play the piano or
hear a person I love laugh so hard they honk
And I have no doubt that what I’m glimpsing
right here, right now
is heaven