June 2003  

Serendipity   © by   Nancy Kenney Connolly
 

In an infant's
open-armed embrace
I   blurs into   not-I

and no question of justice arises
only chance mercies
a full breast.

In this predacious universe
corn is not outraged by locust
plankton by whale, light by black hole

but we
--until our eyes grow soft enough
to dissolve barriers again--

draw boundaries
cement bonds
search for justice

while crows rise
from a sunlit field of wheat
like sparks from a fire.

Previously published in the North Carolina Poetry Society's
Pinesong: Awards 2003. Used with the poet's permission.
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