Where I'll find you

Finding Lightness

Joel Robison Photography

I search for you 

as snow recedes as milk stains on grass

you with the glint of dragon fire in your eyes

you with the naughty smirk on your lips

Carry me to where the forest 

is greening & lake is squirming with fish

Above the bare maple trees

I see the sun's marmalade cheeks

Even as grey clouds

billow as  fraying ribbons across sky   

There will be no winter blues for me

No rainy days to swallow bitter pills

I'll write on tea leaves
while drinking warm apple cider

I'll find lightness

in belly of winter, flint the shadows

with dawn fingers, 

and strike & strike at the core

That ember that leavens

bread & shapes my sandcastles to garden

That water that rises

above dry land & breaks into a storm-

I'll carry a black umbrella
creased with words & painting tubes-

Here, I'll wait for you

with a hundred blue balloons-  

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Rain walk

you are walking on air

between raindrops

feasting on changing colors

of leaves, one heartbeat

at a time

as one black umbrella opens

up after another

“Follow me”

says your guts

this is the path

you want to cut out

for yourself:  dream-chaser

oxygen rushes to your lungs

knife-winding & halo-storming

like that first time you flew

kite to crown the sky

by Joel Robison's Photography

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Of paper wings

there is a road map
your eyes are searching

underneath white starched shirt
is your wild heart

no one hears it but you
pulsing river tide

hungry for smell of freedom
wide-angled as blue vein sky

and when the night
fragments your chest to water 

ask the bird for feather bone
ask the moon for verdant light

somewhere a corn stalk is ripening in its time 
you have wings

paper-light, fashioned out of tiny scars
the mirror doesn't show it

but you are beautifully 
made, always 

Joel Robison's Photography

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