Learning, a Natural Thing

Neither our aversion to school nor our many distractions

keep us from learning. They persist

and try

just like they do all the time

in our minds.

Learning

feeds upon needs, wants, experiences

to live life,

a journey never ending until we reach the gates.

This condition is a solid fact

written everywhere

voraciously feeding our bodies and minds,

an instinct we cannot ignore

in our day to day lives

eating pictures

which we create conscious or unconscious,

drawings not in space where

there is no proof

but at our fingertips, solid, constructed

eagerly evolving.

This is one of the versions.

A second: a wildflower in an old bean field

where grasses grow and time is slow

spitting out seeds.

The tiny-baby buds live for one day

roll out,

pop open,

“they’re just weeds,”

her only thought to be

a wildflower.