Water to Water

from water to water

he walks on whispered paths

scattered shattered rocks

echo of soft breaths

soft breeze

a shadow trails him 

refuses to leave

blocks his way with curses

heated words

here where there was once water

familiar tears flow to nothing

create a spring of things

that never were

jppestana

1.28.18

Life of Light

in softening air

awareness lessens

reduces to you alone

cactus scratch deeply at

a catching wind clouds catch

escaping light

he faces away

west to the fractures

of everything once easy

now it is the pecking hammering

of stone on stone

thought on thought

sense on sense

the uncertain stupor

or elation

he leans with the ancient tree

feels the tips of fingers

cool in the ghostly river

the huddled ghostly crown of crow

their jewels fading

in the life of

light

jppestana

1.12.18

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