Unsaid Immortality

No reply needed, precisely understood
as inanimate in the eyes of others
we speak, as silent as you are.
Unburdened gestures, a greeting, a place
to lean, appreciate, admire, and envy.
Vocal rhythms resonating through outer skin
penetrating ageless rings, never mattered
as we, one in the same, love and die
produce, beautify, and destroy.

Cheers.

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.