Visual Echo

 

You were born this day;

Gone for nearly nineteen years.

I still hear you laugh.

Wild geese distant cries

Floating through the blue gray mist

Appear--Disappear.

Blue jay and the squirrel

Partake in a joint breakfast.

Squirrel stays--blue jay flees.

Brown pine cones, beige earth--

Early springtime but no blooms.

Gray clouds move slowly.

Floating through the sky

Hawk becomes its own shadow:

Visual echo.

Bedded in snow bank

Fallen leaf has found its home,

'Til both are washed away.

Pathway in the woods

Has no beginning or end--

Only mystery.

Such a gentle tap;

Such a giant woodpecker;

Then both disappear.