Two humpback whales
are breaching eight miles
off the coast of Venezuela
and monks are chanting
in Nepalese in Nepal
and in Monserrat in Spanish
and a woman in a suburb
of Lincoln, Nebraska
has just been told her nephew’s
cancer is in remission
and a 3,000 year old Redwood
on the north coast of California
is still alive at this moment
and someone in Salamanca
has just found a fifty Euro bill
on the sidewalk and a newborn is crying
in the village of a nearly extinct tribe
in East Timor and the sun here just now
broke through to paint everything in color
and the coffee I’m sipping as I write this
tastes especially rich and in Nigeria
a man at this moment has lost his goat
just so he will find it again and be glad.