Grand plans notwithstanding,
life comes to us,
unfolding in small ways,
whether or not our presence
has anything to do with it

Far from our former need
to know everything yesterday,
we are content to notice what we do

Slowly the net comes together
to hold us graciously
in the web we hoped to make

Visions of how it may look later
entice us, appearing, as they do,
from wisps already here.

©Wendy Mulhern
April 26, 2020