On Wednesdays
And sometimes, on Wednesdays,
you feel altogether less than.
Less than creative. Less than
bright; less than enough. Still
there is this desire to burst some
seal in the universe to say what
you feel. And you determine
to send the man you love a letter
because you are also reminded
by your intro to writing classes
how powerful our interactions,
entanglements with the natural
world really are. Reliving our
gorgeous weekend in Montana.
Wide skies, iridescent light. The river,
carving out its channel, hosting
bobbing rafts of geese, the
swift water constantly breathing,
caressing, quick-tickling its banks.
Feet, pinked, cold and smoothed
by silt and stones. The mule ears
sunshining in bunches on the
low slope of each sky-grazing
mountain range– Absaroka, Crazy,
Gallatin, Tobacco Root– still white-
tipped with winter, now green-
black with pines, avalanche lines
and juicy jade undergrowth
all silently worshiping Spring,
new whorls of love made daily
Deluge
Spring, you may wander through my
soul in infinite spectacles of rebirth,
interrobangs of golden mule ears
apostrophes of purple monkshood,
little ellipsis of mountain service berries
punctuating each hillside and long
top-frothing grasses, mountain oceans
in growing breezes, a cloudy sky meant
to cast angles and halos, one
moment warm and the next a
whipping rain, a deluge,
steady then soft, pelting then gauze,
a corporeal mist clinging to river beds,
mountain roots and renewal
Skin
shedding
morphing, learning,
lose, grow, shift, change
a year for becoming strong and centered
snake
Blindness
absolute blindness
creates false hope, fists clenched and
clinging old, wet sand
Sight
when the grief subsides
the soul is filled with blinding
joy, internal sight
See
did you want to drive
your military complex
around on the street
Refined + Rugged 