Halcyon and Savage

Winter Folk

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.

Capricious

Seasonal revision
deeply shallow
solidly cast

Acorns

Thoughts dance below a moon
-lit stage as shadows are often
fueled by the penetrating gaze.
Lonely grey squirrel pulled the curtain
strings revealing an acorn audience splitting
lively to witness what endangered feel,
open arterials flowing like the gutted
sacrificed life-giving white-tail.
Cycled nourishment wake is released
from the breaching trout for the pure
to face down into the trough and feed
digesting a contagious virus
capable of sun rises.

Let's Think of Each Other

In the east we will rise, casting spring renewal

Breathe; I will fill your lungs as you blossom

surrounding me with pure vibrancy.

With the bright sound of a cardinal

I will greet you every morning.

Carrying forth, one great star hangs

to soothe our souls, emitting gleams

of reminders, bringing life to a green

flourish. Let me be the perspiration

that trails along your soft skin as you wave

with a fierce feather floating towards earth.

I will smile at you with subtle warming

colors that reflect in your eyes as we turn,

away from summer the days grow shorter

returning kind gestures with every retiring leaf.

I comfort you within the darkness, lips meeting

with the crisp fresh air establishing an interest

in the bleak completion of a full rotation.

I will follow your path with every fresh layer

of white as I trek through the nourishment

you lay before me in the west, as we set,

let's think of each other.