Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Spirit among spirits

Walking along Limantour beach,

a sumner day in winter

thinking, not thinking.  


Salmon drawn year after year 

spooning eggs in this open mouth

of fresh stream and salty  tide--


but how do they find 

this nest again?


Do they smell its spit

like wolves smell rabbits 

in the snow 


or an Eskimo spots a bear

in shades of white?


So many kinds of knowing  

closed off to me 

yet I love to wander, 

a spirit among spirits--

my bed a mere

stopover 

on the way 

to another world.

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