Saturday, September 28, 2013

Snowbird

Snowbird

I would walk aimlessly
just to be in the wind
but I wanted direction.
The “flap flap” of my flip flops
against my heals inched me closer to the library
where I’ve judged every book
by its cover at least thrice

and I noticed the sky.
I soaked in surroundings,
the layers of business,
homes, hills, fire formations
and blue mountains,
the touch-me-not desert,
bold and beautiful,

but nothing so beautiful
as the air.
I swam through the
freshness like the cut
of a fighter jet through the blue.
Nothing but blue.
Not a cloud. No precipitous precipitation.

I breathed and the sky was weightless upon my lungs.
The weightless heavens that fell
upon my September morning,
drenched it in dehumidified splendor.
The crispness was captivating.
The breeze blew in believing.
My flag flew in faith,


and I remembered why I live in Nevada.

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