Friday, October 26, 2018

Gossamer



the thinning
of the leaf-green veil
at Samhain
the colors of another world
break through


hummocks
of golden grass
let loose
a volley of birds . . .
thoughts tumbling skyward


one white stone
plucked from the gravel—
again and again
I toss it into the blue
to catch its fleeting gleam


the lines 
of a poem I’ve yet to write
tangled
in the silver ribbons
of a lost balloon


splitting 
the silver milkweed pod,
Pandora lets loose 
upon the autumn earth
a raft of spindrift wishes


~Skylark 4:1, summer 2016