Snap

Snap

by a smaller sea
we enter cold metal night
stacks blacker
anger march
power sound smoke
salt mists
sweet music
behind this
all traffic ceases to be
moon sparkles millions lightly dance
and branches hear the snap of me
she the wind
breaking
in two

Moon In Moon

before twisted trees
the moon is all web
swaying slightly
it will not
break free
tonight

in bright light
a moth of surprise
lands in desperate flutter
caught in its own death
it cocoons moon
in moon



JP
6/30/2010

Crisp

Crisp

sweetness lingers
in hesitations
of april winds
winter hay
horse
and
man

his apple such red
holds an open hand
the mare's wet breath
licking
in a crisper
wind

JP
6/30/2010

War and Lilies

War and Lilies

from trees
see the worn pond
longer column of moon
lying still
heavier in the glimmer
of still moving lilies

 JPestana
April 23rd, 2010

Laguna

Laguna


tiny flowers  dusty spill
from dull hills
crash of sun crush of wave
impression of pink rocks
the boy glorious
is in the tree
of his dreams
poem of poppies
eucalyptus
sides of more hills
sliding into rushing foam
of a blue then
deeply green sea

JP 2.8.2010

Loss and Found

more than shadows
succumb to night
missing something
tearing things apart
searcher he
pushes aside darker clouds
loud branches blocking  touching
a too weak moon
shards of stars slice
bleed their icy blues
these too under
a too weak moon
his is hunger now
salt in hard wind
wind in stripped trees
frantic trees and weak moon
snow falls from the moon
tracking snow
falls everywhere
the moon  stronger now
lights the pine
finds his longing
loss filling deeply
with new snow


JP
11.14.09

So Long the Rain

years silent
raucous crow
shout loudly
revive about me
beyond me beyond my joy
they have much to say

crossing the end of a long rain
over sun white
hung between thin oak
I join in the lucky confusion
watch things unfold
strain my freshly quiet
softly
drying
sky



JPestana
11.12. 09