Watercolors No.2

PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL:  

On Dreaming

Mute leaves 

slip, slide, wink 

on shafts 

of orange light, 

bending seasons 

from a cool, blue destiny, 

before landing, 

freightless, 

commadored by insects, 

ships of passage 

through winter's mutinies 

ice, ooze

and the forgotten dreams

of pond-bottom. 

Here in the autumn pond

is the mirror of spring.