Huitieme Ciel
Pitched & pitching into
a new book of life
Strange new possibilities
Overwhelming probabilities
Smelting the aroma of Tacoma
into pleasant plumes
of anti-arsenic
Reveling in runners, walkers, workers &
players
Marking time by the tides
and tides by the phases of the moon
Undulating with the tides
of change
Changing with the mysterious mountain
Climbing into new spaces
slowing into richer yoga asanas
Melting with the glaciers
as the earth smiles at
human avarice
Listening to the long trains
headed who knows where
Marveling at the foibles and beauty
of humanity’s dreams
Breathing into newness of life
watching the smoke signals
of mystery
– Stephen Silha