Amazements and Anagrams

 
There's an outdoor elevator that would take 
              an hour to ride to the top of its   
       building. Leisurely ascent, time to experience  
              a kind of slow suspension, though that's  
nothing compared to trees in an olive grove 
              which have persisted for almost  
      a thousand years. Two leaves have yellowed 
              on the monstera. Plant guides say  
it could be from either under- or overwatering;  
              it's hard to tell for sure. No one  
      would mistake a violin beetle for the actual  
              instrument though perhaps that  
might not be entirely fair to the insect,  
              which may produce its own type of  
      coherent music just below the range  
              of your hearing. You hope   
you'll see in this lifetime the Picasso moth,  
              miniaturist bearing a gallery display  
      on its back. As long as there are bees,  
              there can be honey; and also that myth  
about how they defy the laws of physics with   
              their bumbling flight. Anything  
      is possible. To take the poison out,  
              change wasp to was, grieve 
to veer; strife to sifter, human to hum.