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Ordinary Miracles celebrates the natural world; illuminating sweeping landscapes and up-close details in words and images. Nature has always been my church, and this book is a way to bring some of what I see in nature to everyone.
Ordinary Miracles
Queen Anne’s Lace, for instance.
Fields and roadsides snowy
with her multi-floret blooms,
flat topped, supported by green ribs
like an up-ended umbrella.
The hollow of the bloom
before it opens.
The way lacey spaces
fill up between segments
as the flower unfolds,
velvety purple cross
at the center.
Jewelweed.
Tender green leaves
turn silver underwater,
orange blooms delicate
as orchids. In autumn,
seed pods explode
when touched.
Chicory. Blue mandalas
at the edge of the asphalt,
nod in the breeze,
bloom into October.
Hidden in plain sight
along the roadside.
Ordinary miracles.