Kit Kelen #1232 - pond life - Lochhausen

1232

pond life

Lochhausen

13. v.19

all in among the waving

green and grey come

blue paler and paler

in every stillness

find a self

hear the heart

moss trail

lily in the pads

and at their steady pace

all grazing

grazing and nested

the ducks in finery

wing to fan

familial

come through the reed maze

take next steps on

peacock headed as for tail

Iridescent too  

like the paddle steamer

crossing this way

between worlds afloat

in the border

where a sky

come true

see the over beak glance

the wake and setting sail

then for the stillness of dusk

in every heart a stillness

where woods unclock

sky notes

speak of a certain time of day

take it for your season

secret

volume of woods down

train brought up

best be making tracks

waddle to wing lift

here we come

where we happen to land

a comfort when night

brings us under wing

then nobody hears

how our mothers would sing

but it’s deep in the feathers

and warm