Life is evidence of ....

Long ears and smiling eyes
A mechanical hand
Fealty for life
How can he dance with causeless joy
cradling life
A precious chore
in the sun and the rain shadow
of a well inhabited day
Heartstrings unstung
by humid weather
lets off kilter music arise
the tone of an out of tune piano
and a player sheer delight
at new compositions
of music
that bare fruit
from a tree composed
solely of light

Around a table
a clamor of glasses
 and a cheerful banter
leads to
silences gracious
heart
where stillness
stands
for a moment
until the ocean of conversation
laps again on the tables shore
The long eared, smiling eyed
mechanically handed body of light
winks with a knowing certainty
that life is the evidence of
a great mystery.