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Travel Poem – Mt Rainier

Painting by Edward Carlos _ Mt Rainier

Painting of Mt Rainier by the poet

 

 

For aviator Kenneth Arnold in flight near Mountains Rainier with an appearance of flying saucers

 

 

Mt Rainier

 

 

 

hollows and victories

across the far valley in early spring,

clouds

darkening in low downcast,

prediction of rain, and above,

where

such tears begin, the mountain is

pleated along the plateau as if all is

slowly melting, flooding plains – nine

such sightings occur where density

observes that land and sky are in diverse

proportions, an ultra spacing where

storms come from beyond the haunt of

emerging,

reemerging.

 

 

restless aqua sperm heaving in

proportion to hues demanded for a new

form who forms suddenly,

jolting into meaning –a concept. a body – a birthing

this sudden impact, that flesh of a

volcano’s stone ridge

which spreads invariably

recessing, tracing, asking, grasping

perimeters (our human way, making

sense

of perceptions forgotten when longing.

we just merge into one extravagant

membership).

 

 

if earth green and blue emerging are as

exacting as this deep touch

where liquids gather, where mist prevails,

comes

an emergence from secret hiding places.

Rainier, a reflection, our inflection

whispers of golden mountains

to reveal us as a momentary resolution

in time for what is to be,

a chalice

overflowing

where inexactitude is an insistent urge

searching the open point of what is primal

(always then dissolving but human-like

our souls come forth – a shifting of

metaphors)  in a span of well-being,

meanings change, move

momentarily aside or if daring allow

from inside coming to us

swelling, springing forth with crocus

jonquil, forsythia and we are such selves

conjoining

with denizens of heaven who gather

blossoms, cast seeds for gardens of earth

and other orbs by season

to reconcile thoughts.

 

 

resolutions to begin again as visions, over

and over – all thrust purges, fomenting

from within promises of becoming

the marrow of being,

sun shining,

gravity as light,

an atom

one at a time, we are a union, a

finalizing force, relentless and fierce,

and promising.

 

 

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