8/9
young mountain
lee side introspect...

new growth
forest reclaims
an abandoned
homestead...

secret pond teems
with swirling swallows--
strobing afterimages
like so many
Doc Ellis curveballs..

we sense a peak
is near...

summit
view of the Salish Sea
bestows electric awareness
of connectivity--
lysergic reminders
of relationships between parts
and wholes--
polarities reverse--reveal
spiral phyllotaxic patterns--
surging--receding...

the species seeks high places--
revelation--transfiguration--graces
seers with visions of essential unity...

we would reach
for understanding--explanation--
creation of meaning--

climbing slowly downward
from
one
true
thing