Feet set into the ground

Feet set into the ground

Sun having faded somewhere over the hills

Cool grey winds, encircling and shapeless, spiraling higher into Zero of the atmosphere
Night shades drawing. Cerulean blue – blue – black-blue – black
Celestial spheres turn – turning, turning, like silent records, time after decade after century, after time

Deep fading blue of sky now dancing with blue evening lake
Water
Earth, sky
Other element residing deep in hearth of the mind
spark shrouded by mystery, unknown to any man

Occasional black flittering of distant bird
Some universe…
reflecting into taut-muscled organ of sight -
from white and green eye,
flowing into water,
to combustion, heating of soft wood, splitting of stone

Some universe
Everything from high rolling sky to deep grooves of thumb
corporeal, external, melded by subtle flame
into value and form:
life given breath

vast expanse of air
shoreless waters
mud, stone, clay
external brought within

slender flame stretching through man’s form
—consciousness