We look at the ordinary, the daily hurrying, the intense focus. But what if we had super duper vision, and could see the shining that is around all of us and everything?

Perhaps we glisten … if only the eyes could take it in. As we look, do we have a built-in dimmer switch, a lessening of the majesty that has always been here?

I wonder if there’s someone standing behind each of us, holding a coat of many colours and inviting us to slip our arms into the sleeves.

I wonder if there’s the beauty of an opal lying on our skin and lightening our hair.

I wonder if we humans in northern climes look at an ice storm and see the icicles beyond the dangerous driving.

I wonder if the hallway shows us a door we’d never noticed before. And will we turn the knob?

I wonder if we can open to the sun shimmering the snow on our favourite tree.

The world is pink beyond the brown

Curved beyond the straight

Floating a few inches above the ground