Just for the Fun of It

The animals that are not human know

(or seem to know, for what do I know?)

how to move and live for the fun of it.

When I think of the mountain goat

scaling the peaks with abandon,

I suppose he's hunting for food,

but between bites he gambols.

Just for the fun of it.

 

Billy Collins pictures whales

crisscrossing the ocean trails

because they can.

I imagine waving my broad

and majestic tail

to propel a giant body

across the vasty deep

and I can put myself there

in the same way I can become the trees.

 

In that spirit I glory

in the flittings and flyings

of the teenage jays that cavort in the evening

outside our upstairs window.

Just for the fun of it.

 

 

 

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