Of earthen tones

ButterflyCloseup
By the Racing River, British Columbia. Taken by Steven Mackay

 

A rainbow
of earthen tones
ochre to slate
to raincloud gray
aside consuming
obsidian;

all
come together, exhausted
thrown aside by the riverbank
time and motion
ground each one smooth

 

Author: AJM

Writer, sociologist, Unitarian Universalist.

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