I wasn’t looking for wonder ...

from I Did Not Notice The Birds by Michael Sun https://moistpoetryjournal.com/2021/04/19/i-did-not-notice-the-birds/

Gaps in the day as memory runs free – I am only now remembering, the music of wind, of bugs, of birds, of leaves – they're all strumming chords in my ear, my night pillow pulsing in rhythm to things, today, I failed to see