Who should I thank?

You may feel about the planet what

you feel about a great baseball team or band:

that once there was a moment when, unknown

to us at the time, we convened

and lost and found ourselves in what we created.

Who should I thank for this day?

A fresh-mown lawn is a robin's repast.

A bear a black bear a rolling delicately dancing

graceful as silence sailing through the ferns and understory

unafraid and in no hurry.

My musician referral service, vacation rental business,

nonprofit management system, plant identification database,

great American songbook and anthology of poems. Coach says

in a thousand years back and forth games like lacrosse and soccer

will be played against genetically engineered primates

but baseball will be played solely by humans.

In a thousand years, amen.