A pale

Blue sky

Cooled by rain

Distinct and

Enlightened

.

Far

Grey

Horizon

Interior and

Jeweled

.

Keen

Layered

Moments

Newly

Observed

.

Perfect

Quiescent

Remote

Shifts in

Time

.

Ascending

Bird

Circling into

Depths of sky

.

Even

Far

Greater

Heights

i

Joyfully

Knew

.

Answer me

.

Before it

Comes to be the

Day is

Encountered by

Faith

Greeted by birds

.

How

.

In the still of the day they

journey beyond

Knowledge

Leaving the earth for

Mysterious

Nothingness

.

Of what world are they

.

Pelicans in

Quiet

Repose by the

Shore

Tilting their beaks towards water

.

At a lake in the desert

Brought there by youthful adventure

Coming in spring in bright cloudless

Days we

Entered a

Foreign world

.

Growing up in the city where to

Have silence was rare the

Intense stillness

Jolted us

.

Keeping a promise to rise early we

Left our campsite and

Made our way to a

Narrow peninsula of sand in the

Open water

Present all around us were birds whose songs

Quenched the silence leaving a

Residue of

Serenity that remains to

This day

.

At dawn’s edge

Before the light is

Created I lie on a

Down pillow of sand my

Eyes unseeing as darkness

Fills with

Growing shoots of sound

Holding the

Incoming

Just beyond

Knowing

.

a

spring –

life

.

(for Nina)

Attune to

Behold the

Creator’s

Dark

Entry the

.

Faint

Gauze of

Horizon

Is

Just

Kindling with

Light

.

Marvellous

Nation

Of birds

Prescient

Quixotic

Regaling our

Soul’s

Transformation

.

the dawn

appears –

.

renewed –

what is

.

(for Josepheen’s ninetieth birthday)

sky fades

is was –

to be

.

humility –

a feather

flies

.