One Night Soon
One night soon I will follow the moon’s path
across the wide channel and over the islands
threaded like rosary beads<!-- AddThis
July 31, 2010
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One night soon I will follow the moon’s path
across the wide channel and over the islands
threaded like rosary beads<!-- AddThis
Let the river wash me, the moss and brown duff soften my footprint, the flicker of bird wings quiet desire. Moonlight paints the land in
The incoming waves gather in forceful pulse, yet when vision softens to the breadth before shore, long fingers of desire appear beneath oncoming wave. Reaching
The water lies still between dark and first light, without dawn’s warmth to raise the wind. In that quiet space the movement toward morning a
The wind is cold on rock point; gulls cry out echoing aloneness, crows bark to protect their young fledges as eagle rides the thermals. It’s