new and new

i have spent delicious time

inside a new book

reading and waiting

terry tempest williams has published this:

when women were birds

fifty four variations on voice

it is beautiful, hard, confusing

compelling, comforting, solid

and light as a feather.

(the physical book is also beautiful)

 the rock there

it connects me to what i've been seeing

birds birds birds birds birds birds birds

~~~

i watch the heron nest,

there are three fledgelings now

with wind sounding like ocean.

~~~

and at home i watch my place here

and the new place i will inhabit

in a year or so

a new ecotone

all ecotone in fact

an old farm

structures

long in decay

now a private place open to sky and dreams

and land. old geography, new to me.

we will honor a dream begun by a young family

but reshape it into

a place to grow old in

it will change

it will be the same.

~~~

little fiber, except yet more shifu

but spring and change is here.