Am
I am the endless moment of my poetic soul,
When all else has fallen away but me, me being me,
Whoever, whenever, wherever I may be, today, tomorrow.
This cloudless cerulean sky am I,
Its outrageously blazing sunrays,
Radiating off the silver surface of this ice-glazed lake.
Look for me, somewhere between the snow's last vestiges
And spring's saturated, burgeoning, just-greening earth
Drinking me into its vast, deep, eternal reservoirs.
And in June, look for me in the shore-lining cattails, as well,
Tiptop-high in the crowns of white and red pines,
Clinging to the mist lifting into a magnificence of sunrise,
Singing from the throats of chickadees, red-winged blackbirds,
Wailing from a lone loon floating in a moonlit shimmer,
Ringing from the bell of the village's Presbyterian church.
Look for me there and here, nowhere else, and you'll find me.
I am everywhere. All things surrounding me, I surround.
Wherever I am is everything I've ever been, everything I am.
03/17/10 - (1)
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