shaping, chiselling, and hammering
simple ideas are tried on
as a new fad
that leaves altered
other simple ideas
tried on for size

This is existence:
Nature trying new things
over geologic time
turning the simple
into the complex,
something more than
sums of parts.

Our ancestors
laid simple tracks
we follow now complicitly:
the deer, the beaver.
Even fish pave routes
for the hearts of men
to follow back to the beginning
of creation.

The living
are presences
for future dreams
for they carry within like water
the four corners of existence's cathedral
to quench the fires of the bazaar

Dream bigger dreams
and try out simple ideas
as Nature tries out new
over deep time
laying tracks,
sowing seeds,
for future dreamers.