Origins Without Endings

Tender lily shoots tipping out

at the creek’s surface

touching air

and sky --

life teams with newness.

Wet unfurling curled cone leaves

ribbon out on tender stems

lushly engorged

on photosynthesis

and early sap flow.

Peeps and chirps, delicate as baby’s breath

fill background silence

of earthy under-story

in oxygen-dense landscape

merging fauna life with flora.

Waxing moon extends
her feminine edges in

tandem with light--

synchronicity with Solstice

reaching new boundaries, yet ancient.

Long ago now, without beginning

with no ending,
life begins--waxes wanes

tender—expanding—maturing—closing

only to begin again and again and again.

Kat

2 November 2016