Question Mark

Invisibly moved, ideas emerge
In concert, as if they had been sent.
They come in the form of a question,

Why do we seem as if we’ve been sent?
As more thoughts arrive they continue
To outline the shape of that question,

The way shadows in the crop outline
The ruins under the barley fields,
The way mushrooms make fairy circles—

The way the seen outlines the unseen.
An enormous cumulonimbus
Gathers itself over the desert.

The forecast gave no percentages
For a thunderstorm this afternoon.
If the risk of a bet is to lose

The bet, predict it will dissipate.
If the risk of a bet is to be
Caught in a storm, prepare for a storm.