Trilogy
The Living Dark
ISBN # 0-9741648-2-8
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The Living Dark
The Living Dark
Elk tracks cross the beach
to the water at low tide
and back to the black hole
of forest slicing down to the ocean;
beyond the spoil of illumination
waits a living dark
where boughs grow down
to a matted under-story
of water sound and insect
a fertile darkness
pulsing with imagination
exiled by our devotion
to brightness
by our fear of all
we refuse to know
but will know one day
when the fecund hollow
reaches up into our shallow glimmer
pulling us down
to the uncertainty
to the darkness
to life.
Deep Root of Trees
Softly in the morning
I approach you
humble in the returning warmth.
I come as stranger and lover
without pretense
each touch familiar
yet evanescent
as a bird.
I come quietly
without demand
my prayer
the hunger of the river
for the deep root of trees.
Down This Street
The hint of yellow |