All Lit Up - Poems

From Do you think we’ll ever get to see Earth sir? Sheenagh Pugh

But if you should see some beautiful thing,
Some leaf, say, damascened with frost,
Some iridescence on a pigeon’s neck,
Some stone, some curve, some clear water;
Look at it as if you were made of eyes,
As if you were nothing but an eye,
Lidless and tender …