04/18/2024
IS-ness
William C. Scott, II
When the Wind blows...
Leaves tremble
And shudder
for the ecstasy
Of a shaken Nature…
Supported by an Anchored Stem.
When Fire cackles
And dances her witchly flames,
Tinder withers…
A dire note of surrender
and the Transfiguration occurs.
When Waters swell
and Life, suspended gasps,
As not to breathe…
Fishes flounder,
and wash ashore but…
Great Whales bellow, “Return ...”
When the Earth moves
And Tall Mountains tumble
into hot Lava Liquids,
- Somewhere -
A tiny sprout strains against the fate
of a sidewalk crack…
And dreams elsewhere,
Fields are Free.