Orange light rains hard upon the basalt face of earth,while centuries converse of whether Time may fashion worth.Humus tendrils reach around the proud striated curvewhere beasts of wing and hoof alight to patiently observe.Then saplings play a lengthy game to score a pleasant glade,and sunlight nurtures cousin blooms who thrive beneath new shade.A fragrant breeze… Continue reading Place
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Mirror
Staring up the hill, across a curved expanse of sodden earth, the Wolf draws forward, fearing loss of scent before the Moon’s full birth. Brother Sun eviscerates each nuance, casts aside all shade, and swallows hungrily the dust decaying down from lives well made. As sharp as steel and steady as a hummingbird in Summer’s… Continue reading Mirror
Eugene
I couldn’t quite find the words as we sat together around the table, looking hopefully into our kins’ eyes. So differently our tongues curl. Our gardens keep asynchronous calendars. Our suns rise and fall several degrees apart on the Earth’s dial. We conversed in search of the shared story. I could not find the words… Continue reading Eugene
Leora
The broken path again made whole leads on to days long past, and yet you stagger sideways, chasing dusty dreams and truth to soon forget. This moon you break your treacherous ruse, committed now to blind return home. Hearthstone cold, a lingering scent of Hope, too dry to ever burn. Fear not the road to… Continue reading Leora
Always
a Lily under shade peers south and sees the distant showers of light striking merry waves and glistening on beating wings beneath the matted garden bed her roots feel out and down, deep down, but lose the race toward remnants of the rains Coreopsis taunts and flaunts nearby, knowing a longer morning sun that glows,… Continue reading Always
