Our golden saucerchipped then smoothed, behind bare limbsshe glows radiant.Rising while we turnon the high arc of angels,she rides royal blue.Sweet freshwater pearl,brilliant from irritant ~you float through darkness.
nature
beets and bleach
Beneath the skin we plunge into the abyss of oxygenated blisscoursing through veins inherited from the men andthe women who bled and begot their unknown.Beneath the soilwe find purple rootsripe with their lifeforce,boiled for royalty andpickled for peasants ~spoons and forks unite.Strike the stains of youth and historieshungered by force.Agitate the bygones of brothersand sisters … Continue reading beets and bleach
in time
Wayward and forwardnever backwardwe fall into the arms of who we are,always becomingmore brilliantly our own ~unique as the yellow biloba and tenacious as those who clung to and cultivatedthe ginkgo’s roots,nearly receded into extinction butwith us today, growing.
deciduously
Yellow ginkgo leaves cling to branches as they bid farewell to the life in their limbs extended to the heavens and out, rooted and reaching for their neighbors. The separation layer holds them together until the freeze snaps time into place, and we fall. To do what daunts humbly, to hold what happens softly, to … Continue reading deciduously
quite quiet
Howling at the half moonas Orion hangs abovethe mountain silhouette, coyotes converge.The star-splattered skypeels eyes up and unshadowed to make patterns of distant suns.Highway hums and powerlineswash the white noiseof a country night.
gratitude swells
Cleansed and covered overhead by waves of wonderunder cold summer skies;the Pacific pacifies wavering hearts.Gratitude for the wild seasliving within us andsummoning us together ~tides coincide on the foam lined shore. Thank you for reading! Forever grateful for the time you spend here.
circles
The sun slinksup the back of dawn and slides down the spineof the horizon. Between these bookendswe summarize chapters missedand discuss drafts dreamed.Family, refamiliarizing.
on wings and wonder
Sandstorm clouds hover high above the green and gracious valleys nestled between the righteous spines of mountains blessed with Nature’s orange and red undress. Leaves linger in autumn’s technicolor trance, celebrating their own death march with the warmth and gratitude of an unburdened winter. New life will rise from soil sown with the crinkled ashes … Continue reading on wings and wonder
las ondas
Diamond cut crestsroll over morning glass:gentle green, unmarred clarity —a salt-drenched system healing.The same sun that blew the birds southlazes behind cumulus cover— coolness collects in the air before dissolvingin the solar reign.
accumulusnation
Silver clouds swollen blue — white gold lining — brilliance. the sun saunters, another quiet morning — cold, still — silent in the southern exodus.
Species of Value 