Saturday, March 5, 2011



Jim Babwe

THE CATCH

New science,
brilliant math,
expert logic
will never explain
how I caught
one
heavy
avocado,
which fell unexpectedly
into my open hand
while I swept dry leaves
into a pile
in the shade
of the avocado tree.

Nudged silently from the limb
by invisible gravity,
I did not see the descent--
had no time to mistake the avocado
for another falling thing.

Skeptics lean toward
odds against
almost everything,
but someday,
I hope
to see a disbeliever
make the same
kind of catch--
comfortable,
effortless.

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