17.10.11

In Altered Tones


Within this misty silence
a peacefulness is glimpsed.

In altered tones,
a simple image speaks.

I am touched awake,
clinging to its heavy abandon.

Looking around, I witness again,
and again, the hem of the spider,
laced so brilliantly with morning’s dew.

Closing my eyes, I breath deep
the world, as it begins its daily assembly.


Reluctantly I turn, stepping away from the cold, 
yet I see myself still, standing there gathering thoughts.

Then the image is gone – returning, I suppose, 
to the home and everything else it had previously fled.

. . . . .


And yet there is only one great thing
To live and see the great day that dawns
And the light that fills the world.
(old Innu song)

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