The poetic city: “Musings in Audubon Park, Perfect Acceptance”

Jun 15, 2020 • Creative Writing

Photo of milkweed seed fluffs. (Photo by: Kay Fallon)

Musings in Audubon Park: Perfect Acceptance

I have always considered it

a sign of good luck

or even a message from the Divine

when the fluff of a milkweed seed

floats across my path

on its uncertain journey

to an uncertain end.

I can’t help being inspired by the sight

of the fluff rising and dipping

and changing directions according to

the vagaries of chance while it prays

to deliver its precious cargo

to a propitious landing site.

The fluff’s drift conveys such a

powerful sense of exquisite surrender

that I am tempted to forget its

biological imperative and attribute

its arrival in my life to some sort of

higher order of purpose.

Whether or not there is a deeper meaning

embedded in the moment of conjunction,

I have always chosen to welcome the fluff

as an emblem of perfect acceptance

as it floats out of my sight

on its uncertain journey

to an uncertain end.

Reece Burka

6/14/2020

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