a sheet

oh sorrowful wait and whither!
shooting great silently-followed askings into the sky
those hollow-dregged rockets pinging
fast flotsam
while the wealth of youth
dangles
in full-bellied life-giving raindrops
off my fingertips,
lackluster explosions drawing away from
the jewel-like reality
of this full sheet
drying on the line,
some party toga,
a pitched and youthy fort,
a bundling of many things
into a close-comforted treasure
for a far journey,
a sharp-shapely delineator
to mark a feasting
in the wide world of nature
and our bright days,
a softness
between the rocks
and our curling bodies,
a warmth to keep
these pillowed tools
at rest
to keep
the dust off
as we settle
and step away through doorways
far & wildly illuminated,
a white backdrop
for your moving adventure
anchored off weathered stories
and glowing trees,
a frame
opaque with
all the colors
of your possibility.

here again,

a sheet,

on the line,

full,

like a many-monthed belly
calm-pond waiting
for that soulful breath
of wind
to move it
in fantastic shapes.

graced by light

Muscles still tight
from the deep
instinctive
push back,
inwardly groaning,
like lengths of trees in the sun
as they stretch toward
the meeting place.

The heat will lead you in,
a trickle,
flowing like water,
quivering,
then rushing,
melting into
the vast teeming ocean.

20 miles
condensed into color,
hanging above your head,
not to weigh you down,
but to make you look
higher.
Prayers woven into the
air currents
shimmering,
turning,
brought levity through
the free and pure joy
gifted us by the young,
rippling,
unadulterated,
out to the wider world
where hidden elephants sing
us flying through the air,
Asian grandmother
dancing alongside
as lightly as
a spring blossom
on the wind.