Cloudy Mountain

Cloudy Mountain

Hazy mount
To my north
Between me
And the deep

Wet & fresh
Wise tree’s realm
Never spoiled
By humanity

Green and gray
Spring source
Storm and ray
Basis

Caribbean lighthouse
Witness of my clan’s
Farce
And calamity


Home to the slimy snail
Nest to birds & snakes
Hide to the totality’s glyph
Lair of pirates

Give me permission
To cross
Across your summit
Through your risks

Your edges that are:
Cold lava echoes
Of earth’s youth
Death rattle

To Ocean’s
Coarse, sparse,
Coherent
And definitive reality

VABM August 4, 2009