Circle of Life

I went back not in time, but in topographical memory,to a place where leaves swirl and tumble into crosshatchednetworks of red and gold and green, lying still as delayedspringtime in roadside piles, now in varying shadesof umber, sienna, ochre and dun, fashioning soil...

The Meeting

Today I saw a mountain lion, absentwas my phone or camera, and I might nothave thought of those anyway, rapture beingthe single emotion that leapt in my heart; She was hunkered close to the ground,casting the dogs and me a backward glancewith a twitch of her long,...

Awakened

It is time to bloom as if newly awakenedfrom a dream and only now realizingit is morning, the bright sunlightinviting me out into a new daywhich I can fill with anything I wish,beginning with thought; When rising, now fully aware of my rolein creation, thoughts want...