When someone walks past me
and looks the other way, I think:

We are a family that bends rainbows, touching
the great stillness in these landscapes that once
made restless seeps into me day by day, and with
it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what
I was searching for without ever having discovered
the earth where "the small kingdoms
                                                  breathing around" us
                                                                           flourish.