Category Archives: nature

Someone’s Perfect Spot

a couple of arboreal neighbors
sharing a daytime scene—

hearing Nature’s tongue
an avenue of rippling voices
cheerful expressions
their sisters joining in the fast lane
making wishes to go on forever—

away from honking brake lights
away from cement
away from the Cloud—

hoping for Today’s twin
be Tomorrow

Snake

I am fear’d
I am eschew’d
I am hunt’d
I am food
I am medicine
I am a pet
I am charm’d
I am admir’d
I am worship’d

I am a Serpent
… with Respect

Sedona

psychical energies
on a lightning carousel

chasing façades
to unknowns

enhancing cognizance
in search of a cure for the soul

Sequoia

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through weather and fire
through footsteps and sharpen’d blades

surviv’d her seed
to become a dinosaur among the living

with hope to snatch the finish line
against modern civilization
and sire more heads in the clouds

Point Loma

catch a glimpse
one’s eyes
through a break
in the coastal ridgescape

transport the mind
to 16^th century
to Juan Cabrillo
soldier explorer

the birth
of European boots
to engrave this western shore

the placenta

of California

Umbrage

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bones of a shadow cast

the rind of its caster

eyes away from the light

speaking to other eyes

quietly telling time

View Point

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there’s water to stimulate our feet
a large perch to relax our wings
and lots of opportunity for people-watching

Stream

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my thoughts mesmeriz’d
by her voices and gambolings

each blade of wetness
quickly disappearing

evolving
into another

until a lifetime of lives
reaches current’s end