Awake to waves on pebbles
The chinook sailing across the trees.
Settle.
Settle.
The songs of sparrows
Fresh of the meadow
Last blinks of Venus
As the sun scales
Scrambles up and over the Missions
To set the Big Sky ablaze
Warmly slowing the icy lake to ripples
Settle.
Settle.
Tiptoe to the granite edge
Crunch of last years needles
Flakes of flint from earth mother
Strengthen my feet
Nudge from below with their history
Settle.
Settle.
Into the air I soar suspended.
Weightless, extended
Eyes falling on the hills
Breathing the ponderosa
Blinking with every summer of life
Flooding my mind
Before the lake drinks me whole
Taking every sensation
But Home.
Settled.