Cohering Sunshine

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I immersed myself in cohering rays of sunlight as the wind washed my skin with a cool winter bite. Standing sprawl legged over the narrow culvert, I take my first picture. Subtle tones of sunlight filter into the frame for effect.

Turning, I see a plethera of cocklebur and milk weed swaying, lithe bodied against the wind. Their timed rhythm plays to the camera's glass eye. Focused and steady I release the tension in my finger. The milk weed has birthed her downy white feathers. Their soft sheen covered with brown seeds.


Three horses stand in quotation of tree and frozen pond across the road. Poised, I break wind's voice with a shutter. Walking along the barbed fenceline I spot a bird's nest, coyly hidden. My camera seeks no respite.



I create a fractured blue sky and wait for the mosaic pieces to fall around me like dandelion seeds. I want to take the variegated colors, caught in my pocket, home. My ears seek refuge in the sound of a small plane flying overhead.


When the sound evaporates into the gold sun I move to a lone tree. I touch her sutured pain- six parallel scars- along her waist and wonder how she survived as her toaster-aged skin is crisp and dry from years of exposure to the cohering sunshine.


My story evolved from a few hours outside yesterday with my camera. I simply started taking pictures and couldn't stop.

prayer flag

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beneficent vibrations on nature’s breath
sidles across countryside, the hour of sun.
vivid color dries on winter’s shoulder
where prayer approaches their tongue.

their words filter out, warm, into cold air
and continues to smolder
where prayer approaches their tongue,
vivid color dries on winter’s shoulder.

their invocations aren’t bottled
inside mother nature’s deflated lung.
vivid color dries on winter’s shoulder
where prayer approaches their tongue.

a smooth picture captures the essence;
a brief moment, of something bolder.
where prayer approaches their tongue
vivid color dries on winter’s shoulder.

dreamstone

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dreamstone. Your face
elusive; edge of hard surface.
long... before touch again.
map, lost inside head,
twisted brown and green
with shaded sunshine.
sunshine shaded with
green and brown, twisted-
head inside lost map
again, touch before long;
surface. Hard of edge, elusive,
face your stonedream.
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