Tag: sky

A Day at the Beach

The air
Briny scent of death

The water
Still, thick with salt

The sand
Crusted, brittle, shards sharp underfoot

But the skies
Azure brushed with cirrus wash

And the sun
A hot glitter off the ripples

A beach day
Nonetheless

Dusky desert sky
Offers not
A single star

So look ahead
To where the road
Is vanishing

A comet glows
Slow to grow
But soon enough
Comes streaking by

Whereupon
The night sky falls
So stars may
Come alive

In the valley
An empty basin
But for lingering salt
Where once a lake

In the sky
A saltless sea
Atmospheric bounty
Held aloft by the winds

The earliest stars
Twinkle under a brazen moon
Keeping the sky
All to itself

A cloudless sky
An invisible wind
But for the snow
Dragged over the peaks

A roiling plume

Like my mind
As I’m buffeted
Not so steadfast
As the rocky peaks

Sometimes I feel
Beyond my flesh
Sense the world
And its beings

Not by touch
Nor sight
Nor sound
Not by smell

Like a sphere of presence
A sphere of influence

Because others
Feel me, this way

And I feel them

Like I know them

I love being
Where the sky is big
And the land is bigger

I love being
In a space bigger than I
Where I wade out into expanse

Sometimes

The most spectacular thing
About this glorious planet
Is the sky

How often
Do I forget
To look?

How often
Have I seen it first
In the photograph?

Tantalus
Earth’s icy saw blade
Cutting into cobalt skies