Unanswered Questions

On a Walk in Early Spring

Does river
Distinguish one stone
From another?

Does sand below

Know where current
Flows?

Does storm cloud

Recognize landscape
Drenched?

Does wind redeem

The silence
It destroys?

Can a seed
Taste the soil
It splits?

Can the sower’s hand

Determine
Harvest’s weight?

Can mind perceive beauty

Beneath the beauty
We comprehend?

Can reflection reveal

Beginning hidden
Inside end?