Greenbrier River Dreams

The clouds drape low, shrugging blue mountain shoulders, melding with ghostly river mist ascending in specterous vapor trails salted with primordial tears. Between stately mottled sycamores and aged medicinal white oaks, slippered phantom figures glide, clad in hides of deer and mountain lion. Down to the silvered stream-- a mirror for chalky spirits and bright stars-- they slip to drink of pristine springs. The powerful spell impacts within, without, invading every animated sense. A dream, an apparition? I wonder at the dawn of bright sun rising, green moss clad boulders warmed, fog dissipated. I discern the curious sensation of withdrawing from an ancient trance. The happy river dances down the valley, bordered in mountain laurel ruffles, pink; the fragrance of breakfast bacon wafts, a tantalizing, hunger inducing wave, and campers' laughter echoes off a dream. Copyright, August 19, 2014