^z 22nd March 2023 at 9:22pm
| An hour before dawn the sky becomes a crystal sea: Wind-torn clouds swim through the air like herringbones of light. Stiff strato-cumulus ripples crest and trough, flow and ebb, As they behalo the gibbous moon with a rainbow aureole. Now suddenly a star emerges, glimmers on the deep, And soon a second spark joins it and next a third bestirs; Then a whole school of heaven-fish surface to splash and gleam. Shimmering chain-mail-scaled, they writhe among the misty reefs. "Behold!" I whisper, while my spirit soars above the clouds. The moon flares cold beside me now, a silver beacon of night. Its fires bless and cleanse me as I hold my breath and dive— Into the infinite ocean of the sky. |
(see also TheBrink (3 Apr 2001), ForUs (31 Dec 2002), DayBreak (22 Jan 2004), ...)
TopicPoetry - TopicPersonalHistory - 2004-12-10
(correlates: GreenMountain, AwaitingNess, SkyLights, ...)