Glorify the Hour -everett ruess

   ...the bright sheeny banner that heralds this late winter run of days is the streaming talisman called JOY, ponder it though we might this one grand emotion lifts me out of bed every day & presents me with a world LAVISHED in golden light and I find it elation to simple draw breath... Why & Wherefore?  does every surface fairly shimmer & exalt the eye that partakes in it?  This sublime condition questions every other, it asks why curse the almshouse when the rosy-domed Taj Mahal stretches from you in every direction?  This wine is effervescent & bubbles over your rim with the greatest gift there is, affection for all that's encountered, the roadie in the next car yawning as you wait together for the green light on Camden, the brown squirrel who rains down shuckings on your breezy skull, even the lone geranium flowering in the sideyard announcing its hour of existence, Affection! Kinship! Flesh! Connexion!