Crossing Thoughts

through the sun

just under this bright hill

a crow on dark wire

wings gleaming spreading un-

evenly

below

its body

shakes away

last

night's

rain

just one moment

in the brief wonder of this

freshly

shaping

breeze

8.7.2024

Crossing Thoughts

JPPestana

 Sigh

this bareness
when time is pushed aside
when you cry out light rises
high over these broken trees
over these thin longing fields
in this distance day begins with a soft nod
an immeasurable night buried 
in the sweet lyric of 
a deepening
sigh

Sigh
jppestana
5.23.2024

 

Whatever

see through these weakened moments 

a hope alive singularly burning barely surviving 

in creaking revolutions of shrinking 

mostly heavens or whatever

heavens of the kind bathed in promises unusual things

I remember holding them close to me

their soft breath more softness

scream then as loud as you feel 

herald the blossoms bright return 

both pale light and pale skies 

the quake of your vastness

and whatever you last told me

whenever I last 

was

JPPestana

Whatever

3.20.2024

 

Forgotten Trees

she with me seizes dreams

religiously reaches for 

our deeper blues

summer's dreaded end remains to be seen

we ride to her mulberries full forgotten trees

low under sun gently rubbing some falling

something in this modest breeze

under these trees purple fingers reach pull

seeds in teeth stick between purple tongues

crickets speak maybe scream their humid riddles

slowly we leave behind the guilt of time

only then her thin row of osage

oranges so green

low hills

dipping into

oblivion

 

2.28.2024

jppestana

Forgotten Trees

Still Light

a robin alone

stands well below the frail oak

stripped bare of bark

fallen branches

it's tortured memories

this cloudless moment

closes itself

from nowhere starling crowd a loud field

and a robin stares still

still alone

in still

light

JPPestana

Still Light

2.23.2024

The Glow

it is here he believes

the hard jagged corners that hold

the coldest of shadows beckon

darkened shapeless things

crumbled steps

ceaseless wind

a smiling man (bearded) walking by on large hands greets

his cheer lingers inspires

from nowhere a gliding choir of crow surround glisten

he loses himself in their precious invitations

then unseen kicks over a bucket of discarded words

harmlessly he races away

chasing them

crying out

in his

dis-

believing

glow

The Glow

jppestana

2.8.24

 

What Passes For Eternity

you who know

you alone in your own thoughts 

should know again

I was with you all along

when blossoms rained down

turning a clouded earth to cherry

when we in tears that never dried 

hugged our sorrows until their begging surrender

when we sipped our thirst away from cupped hands

kissed in the dancing pool

of a lost spring 

and you splashed at me crazily

shouting out what pain remained

watching it drain away in 

the last rays of a sun 

struggling alone 

in its own un-

known