2 p.m. Shades State Park
3/26/19

Pearl Ravine: water
hastening     its
glittering  sound &  light
as of a sabbath

this moment’s
atonement—
“for peace comes dropping
slow. . . .”

the pearl of it
peerless in this place
beyond price

so sang Anonymous
in the fourteenth century

I sing the eternal also—

in all the billions of suns
& billions of years
of this becoming 

this once upon a time

—Marc Hudson
from Phenologies