another form

shards of ice splitting

from the glacier’s face

released from centuries

of hard labor. palpable

the relief, as sharp angles

shed to shining curves,

drips and puddles slip

into ocean, stream, lake.

purple clouds and the rain.

rounded rocks stippled

with lichens. alders and

willow wave. spruce crown

with eagle’s nest blooming

blue forget-me-nots.

cormorant dive for herring,

humpback calf rolling

with a pod of leaping porpoise.

lion’s mane jelly pulsing

over lemon-green popweed

and barnacled rock.

many hands grasping

big blue ferry’s railing,

steady across spacious

seas toward the city

where they wing to distant

homes. grassy shores

and blooming roses. fields

of wheat and rising dough.

amber glow of cut glass

windows sifting winter’s

snowsoft light.