I once meditated
One day in the vastness
Of eternal youth
Under an endless forest of pine
Branches restless and fragrant
Stirred by an afternoon breeze
This was my momentary realm
My impermanent shelter
My temporary temple
My sacred space amid
Such vastness
I am opaque
I feel invisible
I scream at the gods
And the earth
Clouds roll across the heavens
Eternal
This drought has parched
The lips
Of peasants in Medieval fields
The rains have flooded
The gardens of Eden's lost
And found
The scavenger of acorns
The diviner of stars
And comets
The moon we watched
Upon the hill we sat upon
Sinking into the heat
Of midsummer dreams