Sitting with Family as Stars Come Out Over Tahoe

 

cricket soundtrack

            light loses to darkness across every fir tip

summer’s dome opens to constellations

                     each mind’s eye meditates, grasps threads

light years, forests primeval, life eons before this moment

 

                                                   wilderness bewilderment

steel blue ripples muted, sierra monoliths 

             bow to celestial pageantry

 

 

June 26, 2021