Forget Not
View from on high
Scree sprinkled deserts
Once birch and ash amidst
Pines’ shadow
Down into the bowl
Rock barren lessor peaks
Yesterday’s snow clad mysteries
Swirling fall leaves
Sprinkle shimmering sun’s dalliance
A fractal rainbow suspended
Terrace to terrace
Stair-step tiered
Switchbacks releasing mountain sides
Having yielded long ago
Its blueberries and acorn foraging
Still further down
Creeping slowly
The brambles
Nature’s love thorn creepers
Enfolding meadow where grasses thigh-high
Bend to wind’s call to the basin
Tundra’s home
Dog’s bark
Echoes up to
Mount Alberta’s pinnacle silence
As breeze
Swaying my bivouac’s lullaby
Makes mystic
Rising dust
Lavender fantasies
Fortress Lake’s misty fog
Lights of dusk
From hamlets beyond
Signal early stars on high
Forget not man
For this species is but
A single evolution of being
Such is the cosmos
Seeking but new beginnings
budd