forest

sliding into the deep end of the forest
the air sighs like a lover
and parts to accepts me.
life barley blinks,
silence threatens
but the explosion doesn't fall.

they do not know it, but
the birds are the choir
to my baptism
with the dew gathered
from amorous clouds
kissing the trees

I am dappled and spectacular
a silver fish slipping
through the staccato sunlight
of a blue sky morning

time is the dance of shadows
around trees until the darkness
of starlight heralds
the nocturnal guard

wearing a robe of spider silk
and moss my footsteps learn
to whisper the prayers
hidden under the breath
of the forest.
And my heart an
ancient rhythm