Shimmer

Image: Nikola Jovanovic

It is winter 

And if you care to notice,

The naked branches brandish tight buds in their seemingly empty little fists

Where a canopy of generous colors had burst forth just a moon ago

Here I am at the river’s edge

Slipping fingers into an opening between rivulets

She graciously invites me to explore

Her

Cold against my skin

Or I should say

My body registers “cold” 

Yet senses the welcoming

And that symphony of gurgling movement

She has so much to give

Her body and flow also exploring rocks

And the reaching branches that are so in love

They have grown towards her

In a perpetual arabesque

Spines bent

In offering 

To her 

As if they can’t ever get enough

And where they meet

Their kisses part her glass skin

Opening wide the gently warbled surface 

Into beams of fractured liquid light

Holding

A pale blue wintry sky 

And all the shimmering awakening of the morning

Celebrate

She sings and dances without apology

Today is a good day for noticing

For arriving with presence

With love that reaches and 

Pours forth 

Boundless

Top image by: Alexey Kuzmin

Image; Trung Pham Quoc