Albuquerque, New Mexico has the largest stand of cottonwood trees in the world on either side of the Rio Grande river. The word, bosque, means forrest.
Above me
In Cottonwood limbs
I hear
Crinkly leafed voices
Pushed out
The Bosque Mouth
By the wind
Beside me
In Rio Grande gestures
I see
Swiftly moving colors
Of Bosque blood
In the water
Below me
In hard crumbled earth
I feel
Pounding thunder
Of Bosque rhythm
In the ground
All around me
In many shapes, sizes
I taste
Intense presence
Of Bosque truth
In the fire
Inside me
Across the great mystery
I smell
The fall’s surrender
To Bosque death
In sacred ethers
Thank you, Spirit of greatness for living in the Bosque and me.
MY LIFE WORK, if I can get it: owning my shadow to prevent the spread of fake news
And
Extremism
And
Releasing my gold gifts
Thanks John, I am working on another story…..
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