Let’s Praise the Eyes

Let’s praise the eyes –

how they assess and test the size of everything –

note every riffling feather on that wing –

see how the muscles in his throat permit that man to sing.

Let’s praise them more.

Let’s praise their range of strange capacities

to tease, to fool, to school you, make you breathe

a different atmosphere than you had breathed before.

Let’s praise how wide and wise they’d let us be

if we would let our eyes beget

and re-beget the world into the thing it is:

a fresh surprise. Let’s praise – let’s raise – our eyes.

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