(A Rondeau for the Giant Omelette)

Abbeville, Louisiana

When simple things are magnified, we see another world within,

a complex ecosystem not unlike the one that we are in.

And if we linger in our stare we see in mimic miniature

ourselves upon that tiny stage like looking right into a mirror.

Look inside the cell, the atom; look inside the rabbit’s den.

Take a common omelette and observe its rich inhabitants:

celery, butter, peppers, salt enmeshed within the egg spread thin,

and meet the town of Abbeville, a picture portrait made more sure

when simple things are magnified

fifteen hundred times the size, with 5000 eggs in bin

on a twelve foot skillet setting up this edible comparison:

pious, friendly, festive place with its humble Chevaliers!

Tabasco Sauce and crawfish tails adding in the Cajun flavor,

Acadian music on the street: here a town’s heart can be seen

when simple things are magnified.