Saturday, March 22, 2014

Bear Valley

Honey bees bustle over purple rosemary blossoms:
industry in the setting sun -- it is March.

The air is clear and static.  Awesome
distance pours a sterile blue sky

Through a mapped valley green with spring.
Budding oak trees, shameless, naked white,

totter off towards chaparral-draped mountains.  Birds sing.
A black-tail deer mounts the nearest ridge.

Hearing this place is not a choice.
Do not strain to listen to its voiceless voice.

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