Continuum

Photo: Brian Federle, Salton Sea, Dec. 2016

My breath rises

to the edge of space

and pauses

at the nexus of perfection,

then falls,

driven by waves of fire, 

by strong hands guided 

through dust and rain, 

through ice, through

the shining

vortex

to my upturned face

where a single drop dies

and fills me with

the storm's desire.

(Posted 2012.  Revision 8/2017)