Norman MacCaig - An Ordinary Day lyrics

I took my mind a walk Or my mind took me a walk– Whichever was the truth of it. The light glittered on the water Or the water glittered in the light. Cormorants stood on a tidal rock With their wings spread out, Stopping no traffic. Various ducks Shilly-shallied here and there On the shilly-shallying water. An occasional gull yelped. Small flowers Were doing their level best To bring to their kerbs bees like Ariel charabancs. Long weeds in the clear Water did Eastern dances, unregarded By shoals of darning needles. A cow Started a moo but thought Better of it–And my feet took me home And my mind observed to me, Or I to it, how ordinary Extraordinary things are or How extraordinary ordinary Things are, like the nature of the mind And the process of observing.