"Communion"

Alpine wilderness,
within your icy boundaries
tiny seedlings flourish.
Frozen water forms
walrus tusk and narwhale horn,
the unicorn is no stranger here.
Creatures forage reverently
along the luminous surface
hushed by gums,
lucent skinned.

Too soon
will they come
in lurid
space suit clothes.

Stomp through foliage,
slash at trees,
snap off crystal stalactites
ruin heedlessly.

And as they leave
having heaped a drift of snow on the hood
they comment with unfelt irony
on their communion with the bush.


"Sunset"

Flame thrower bursts neon the sky;
tongued fire stabbing polar blue.

Sun slips down a lava bubble burst;
poached egg runny it oozes out of view.

Pine tops cluster, a scurrying black;
mandibles that claw down the moon.

Pale moths rise in dust mote dance;
a snow storm delivered in reverse.

Cow silhouettes graze huffed steam;
hooves holes in doughnut clouds.


"Elixir"

Wonnangatta, where
lichens drift like mermaid hair
anchored to branches barnacled with age.

Kangaroos in stopping to sip leave
strange runes in the sand.
Blackberries ripen, jewel dark in the sun

Let me drink of your waters and cleanse my mind.