At an angle from side to side

Sitting cross-legged on the edge

of a field of sunflowers watching

the bees do their thing as the

earth spins above me in axial rotation

completing a sidereal day while

constantly turning towards the

east with a conserved angular

motion of preserved momentum

over the extent of four and a half

billion years creating the

coriolis effect under which

the sun or shadow might pause

like me to consider those bees on

the edge of this field of tall brilliant

sunflowers tracking from east to west

as the day turns to night at the

lazy pace of 1,000 miles per hour