Thursday, March 26, 2009

Awakening


Driving north from Kremmling on a March afternoon
riding through eroded snow fields
clumps of gray sage, dreary rabbit brush
dreaming of spring

I fly by a team of crows
facing each other across a ribcage
somber surgeons performing their slow
meticulous work

Ahead on the right
a herd of antelope springs to life
formed out of old snow and brown dirt
Illuminated by a rare light

The air sparkles
My heart skips
fluttering between death
and life


lsc/2009

2 comments:

Bingopajama said...

wow. beautiful. so descriptive i could see it in my minds eye. you have such a command of language. thank you.

DJan said...

Yes. Perfect, gives me the vision and the emotion, and your own essential awareness. Thank you. Keep it up.

Poetry is essentially a distillation of thought through the crucible of self. Your self is a poet.