What Mabel wrote is true
the land is so real that
people do seem trivial and false.
The light is everywhere--
great swaths of it over everything
but where the clouds create
shadows on the mountains.
The land rises and falls
and is dotted with junipers.
Today there is wind
and the large magpies
glide effortlessly on the currents.
Their large shadows move
across the grasses then in the room,
up the bed and then are gone.
It is marvelous to watch them soar.
My spirit sails with them.
Yes, people seem so trivial and false.
October 2010
