Mountain Meaning V - Autumn Storm

In the twilight autumn storm
Trampoline trees still green in the wind
Roared like oceans crashing a beach

Hail bouncing on their vinyl backs

Leaves shriveling in electric flames
Whipped from the tectonic clash of clouds

No music to the thunder
Bursts like bombs

A quiet came

Hours later

Our bedroom windows
Billow
With an overnight avalanche of black cold air

We at the bottom of the mountain

Flood of breath
A divinity

Dispelling our illusion
That we are separated from God

Under the blankets
My wife floats on a raft of dreams
Faintly murmuring her pasts with gasps

Mouth warming the back of my neck
Down my spine
Lifeline

A hand migrating underneath
Pulling me along

Inhaling exhaling pulsing together
Toward inevitable change of seasons.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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