These Sky Signs

These Sky Signs

22 july 2016

jp melville

Stillness.

Early evening.

Warmth whispers on soft perspiration of our skin.

Flutter whirr of dragonflies choreographed feasting.

Sparkles of sunlight dancing off their wings.

My daughter sleeps on the wooden deck.

Dog stretched out beside her.

Their solitude played in operatic chorus of forest, trees, light, sky.

Their souls uplifting in gentle arms.

Movement without movement.

Inestimable lightness of being.

Look to our right in the western sky now pure blue.

Look to our left in the eastern sky vestige of tufted cloud.

These sky signs tell us cool north will slide down upon with dusk.

I sit here in one place.

These things I see and hear.

I sit here in no place.

Dissolving...

Where are my daughter and her companion gone?