The Pathway Begins
Beyond the bramble, tangled text
footsteps lost, not in the dream,
wander halting by murmured devotion,
buried in this lush, unremembered gloom.
Bursting umber leaves succeed
motions like unanswered prayers,
sphagnum whispers creep—recitations
of echoes within boathouse absences
where ellipses fracture time beneath
a whispering, decay-sodden moon.
The ground beckons desolation,
devotion
to fleeting marigold breaths, sepia
fractals drenching silence, expansion
in clotted velvet, a river quietude both
pristine and lamented,
driftwood dream lies stray on hallowed shores
Amen again, rehearsing its autumnal opera.
Followceiv it onward, in transient folds
where ancient mutability grieves in vapor hills,
peering through interstices aglow, secret breach...
unfolding, undrawn—paths diverge beyond being back.
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