CADENCE OF DESIRE

CADENCE OF DESIRE

Sandstone cliffs clothed in toyon & oak

long for the sea, but content themselves 

with a tidepool of a sky overhead.

Woodpeckers flash vermillion 

and white wings against the sky,

and greet each other with raucous intent.

A confession of clouds gathers.

Even the sun is afraid

on this dry stretch of coastline.

Smoke finds its way

over the ridges

transverse fault lines.

Sea-dreaming sandstone

fossil love languishing

on the heights of San Marcos.

The distant sea amid the trees

a balcony view of 

Orcas in the Straits—

fins break the sea

like slick mountain ranges.

Sandstone dreams longingly 

of the depths of the sea.

Cadence of desire

dive into the village of the sun

I will rise, I will rise.

Smoke calling me home.

9/2009 La Casa de Maria, Santa Barbara

rev 7/13