Twisted Trunk

 Did he feel the

anguished twisting

lo those many years

of angst and wind;

torment and despair.

If he had been a

person, we’d have 

never heard an end.

Yet, the change was

daily and long, tedious

and unending.  His life

silently never the same.

Sitting Here

Sitting here in the

cool darkness of

morning, I fold my

memories back over

themselves, like a

bolt of unwound

linen or a batch of

Turkish taffy.

Watching each layer 

settle into itself - over 

and over onto the whole - 

captures me with comfort. 

I realize, without this pause 

I would have missed the rich 

hint of how a weave comes 

from combinings, how a treat 

comes from stirrings.  Across 

and through again; around 

and yet around again.

Sitting still reveals the intrepid

motion of life across life.  Warmth.

Again, and again, and yet one

more time again.

Contentedly Familiar

I come to where the dark

brown dirt and smoothed 

pebbles reach toward the

ever changing water.  Rolling

and lapping again and again

the moisture darkens the land;

earth and stone feed the river.  

Hints of an endless familiarity

are tendered; in both directions.

That familiarity is mine, too.

Each time I approach this

solitary place I give pieces

of my me to that rolling and

lapping.  Being here is being

me and I am somehow that -

in the contented stance I now 

hold myself I realize I am home.

When I return, I am more this

place and it me.  And more so

the next time.  A cavalcade of

synergetic mitosis. I become

the thing that is becoming me.

Axon becomes dendrite and is

myelinated again and again and

yet still rolling and lapping again.

Only Stay

 Pull up a log

and sit still long

enough to hear

the endless clicking

of the millions of

fallen and browning

leaves that lay strewn

upon the wooded

forest floor.

Tell me from

where it comes.

If you might.

Is it the crunching

of tiny bugs

looking for food?

Or the rise and

fall of each on

each in the

gentle wind.

As for me

it is nature’s

simple lure

to draw us in.

Stay.  Only stay

until it no

longer matters.

Stay.

Angst and Wind

 Did he feel the

anguished twisting

lo those many years

of angst and wind;

torment and despair.

If he had been a

person, we’d have 

never heard an end.

Yet, the change was

daily and long, tedious

and unending.  His life

silently never the same.

The Scent of God

Hide your infinite 

heart out among the

blueberries; so,

when my soul is 

flagging and weak

I might go there and

wander - tasting the air

for you and closing my 

eyes in a fondness 

of your rich aroma.

Lure me in on the

whispers you planted 

in the dirt.  The ones

watered into leaf and

branch; giving full 

bloom and sensual 

exposure to the dewy 

fronds of your sacred 

and passionate love.

For, I am easily given

over to your wiles; and

haunted by the thrum

of your soul in my own.

So, hide your infinite 

heart out among the

blueberries, ever so and

always.  Please.

Grandeur, Not Omen

 

The darkness given off

by the shadows on the hills

calls the heart into a collusion

with wonder and suspicion.

Do they portend something 

more than the beauty they

cast across the surface of the 

earth and precincts of the eyes.

When do we read more into

what we behold; and, when 

is that the way to go.  For now

I’ll stop at grandeur not at omen.

And the river flows on by,

unaware of any hint of dilemma.

Grandeur, not omen.