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(“To see a World in a Grain of Sand,” William Blake)

Within that single droplet

of rain (a loupe is needed)

Hanging precariously for the moment

at the very tip of the arrow-headed leaf

On the white-blossomed

Juneberry seen as through

his wide-angle lens or prism of some kind

which bends the light to his liking and reflects

an image focused on ground glass—

containing the entire outside world of sky

and sun and land and trees concentrated

and lying behind and beyond—



If one were only small enough to see

Inside of this moist globe

Or large enough to imagine

The earth magnified from God’s seed.

Stephen Rybicki is a poet and academic librarian on the faculty of Macomb Community College, and the author of the reference work, Abbreviations: A Reverse Guide to Standard and Generally Accepted Abbreviated Forms. He lives in Romeo, Michigan.

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