Resounding sky
Pulsing earth
Arms spread to the unfolded horizon.
Radiant color overtaking me,
Red and orange at the edges of the day,
white and blue and yellow during the dominion of the sun,
Deep-tinged soil boosting me,
Clods of grub and taupe and onyx in boisterous collusion.
Halcyon sky
Smelt earth
One’s brilliant caws,
One’s taut whispers,
One flinging winged creatures across the airy dome,
One harboring the quiet thought of dwellers from unfamiliar millennia.
I take my inspiration and my breath,
The winds of six continents
And the mordant pigments of bedrock.
I know I travel far, sharing ecstatic glory
With tempered subterranean glimpse.
When I design my palace,
It will merge the aether and the impenetrable.
Andy Oram
September 24, 2020