There it was outside my passenger side car window looking so close over the tree tops like it was here I seemed to feel the magnetic pull in the liquid in my brain clarity bringing me a sensation of understanding and well-being part of the whole of life my mind adjusting accepting no need to hurry or quickly calculate outcomes everything will settle in place as earths rotation and speed carries me along once more
I
smile
08/09/25
9:28 pm
solunar evening
serene azure beckoning ~
stirrers of the deep
(August Full Moon – Great Lakes and Lake Champlain)
Sturgeon Moon
So soon
Summer slips through our fingers
Our own version of Michigan underwater beasts
Ogling the luminous bellies of boats swimming down Clam River
Dockside a roar with Ahab revelers
I have seen millions of moons
Leaping on the midnight ripples of Torch Lake
I have seen hills and pointes that darkly roll and rise
Inviting levitation
A cheer from our bow
Fireball shot
Looks like home but isn’t
We float down the shore with flashlights
I have seen a picture taken at the lakeside campfire
My wife and I
Standing in the gaps of our four sitting children
Six orange hooded faces
Without bodies
Eyes round as owls
Looking out from the tree of life
I cup my mouth with astonishment.
Wild sturgeon dreams swim
under the full moon;
Waltzing with the waves
wishes wax and wane;
Ever changing light;
Beams transform fast;
Salt in your eyes
before you blink
the tide will change;
Sandy imprint
words written
wash away;
Bottled
message
floats.
reddish sultry haze
full sturgeon moon
we are walking in our
shadows hearts filled
with love contented
the new rain descends
your lips are pale
i am
losing balance
at the thought of
your inner warmth
delirious raptures
healing potions
from the ruined
temples
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