Toledo, Ohio

I left the ninth section of the poem at the Wildwood Metropark in Toledo, OH. A little gathering that evening required a trip from Bowling Green to Toledo to buy libations and after stocking up, we stopped by the park. We wandered into "Windows on Wildlife," a little room with a two-way mirror facing a clearing in the park full of bird and other animal feeders, trees and a pond. We saw no less than three groundhogs, one squirrel, one hummingbird, two cardinals, one woodpecker, two chipmunks, and a bygod frog sitting in the pond, all in the course of say, twenty minutes. It was comically picturesque. I tucked the poem behind a sign for the bee observatory also located in the "Windows on Wildlife" room.

You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to
me.