Monongahela 8/29

Penetrating a reaching graze, growing
fluid crawl of a fog's first descent.
The air is silent, effortlessly navigable
through stems and needles afar
the aged flow, spotted barred owl
of generations' past combs renewal.

Iodine

Blinks of sweat blur confusion
of settlement. Pungent aroma
cloud the aura of the separate
Sulfuric cleansed, poise static
and luminous following the day's
lowered gleam fluttering into canvas
under hanging lights of times past.
Come in search of sea turtles drawing
a picture much greater than fathom
for this creature the momental clarity
is welcomed to its natural existence.