Ohio stretches endlessly blue

Ohio stretches

endlessly blue

like the infinite wind

sightless and cold

piercing my

coatless soul

like the agonized snows

of spring.

(20 July 2016)

Deleware Reservoir is flooded

Deleware reservoir is flooded.

Delicate pools

of blue reflect

the fleeting arch of a heron ascending

as I wait

by the lakeside.

(20 July 2016)

Morning Visions

Morning Visions

I

Like a river glimmering at morning

memory flows softly.

The road ends abruptly,

pavement dissolving into primal mire.

There is no sky,

no hard, limiting blue;

only white mist sinking deeply

into indefinite winter fields,

the trees infinitely rising,

the broken land darkly waiting.

II

Vagrant fog bursts

to metallic blue light

dirty grey, pierced

by the unforgiving sun,

by the harsh, perfect sky.

III

California is a sharp line,

the western horizon, unrelenting, pure,

absolute blue

against the unmistakable edge

while in the east

clouds hover —

bright, deadly rocks

over eroding hills.

(20 July 2016)

Serenade

“We are always traveling and traveling as if we did not know where we were going. “ Thomas Merton

Warm wind stirring our
tallest trees.  Sunset retrieves
another hot day.

Descends silken night;
passion ignites summer's sky,
stars, like wine, delight!

In cool rooms I'll wait
for you to awake. O come!
We'll begin again!

(31 Oct 2013)