Early Morning Balloons
From
night are stars shining through. Ancient light in a wash of
unknowing black. The AM that is young, naïve; follows
no heart. Unshaped, beautiful; the born mind knows no
imbalance, distraction. From time and place, the beginning of one Being
each other. The same. Self. Under the lens of big,
open skies that cradle the infant new. It is faint, weak, barely
there, at once powerful in it’s distant burning.
Signs; waves of color that touch the soft calm. Vast,
twilight scattered, cool. And shadows begin; symmetry,
form, the coming of day; the path has been crossed. The
black will fade to Sun, the faithful stars will go in hiding veils.
Breathing
sky. I and the flamed horizon. Places. Light, set in
vision. Upward to stars and planets framed in books. Upward to
pilots navigating balloons in morning brisk. Solid determined,
young flights. Places found in the room of me. In a
time. A recollection of past. Soaring hot air balloons that
are breathed into, upward in colors, in slow steps above fields and
hills. They move graceful, placid. They are morning dreams of I,
against big music that propels the windless navigation. Moving
everywhere at once, the scene explodes in every direction, every path,
every possibility. The music is slow, quiet, at times it is
silence.