Things that Want to be Counted
  by Anne Valley-Fox

Someone on earth is counting—
night stars,
rooms in a honeycomb,
snow geese descending, wild
lilies, grain spilled from a bushel basket,
bubbles rising up from the
Blue Hole.

Those who are hungry get up in the dark.
Their job is to count
sticks of kindling,
cups of milk, empty beds
or racks of shoes,
newspapers in the dwindling stack,
how many fish in the bottom of the boat.