Their Universe As-It-Ought-To-Be

What one finds
will be what
one takes
the trouble
to look for--
the brilliant
little flower
springing improbably
out of the bare,
packed sand,
the lizard
scuttling with
incredible speed
from cactus clump
to spiny bush,
the sudden flash of
a bright-colored bird.
This dry world,
all of which
seems so strange
to you,
is normal
to them.
It is their paradise,
their universe
as-it-ought-to-be.

--Joseph Wood Krutch