This Nature's Cathedral

original poetry & photos
with reading

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Check out the recording of
me reciting "This Nature's Cathedral"
at the Hive account@dsound links below:

► Listen on DSound

► Listen from source (IPFS)

I.

Twirling bark tendrils
—One could imagine them
Fluttering, faerielike—
Consorting with moss giants
And fiery pterodactyls
Teasing the edge of
Otherworldly portals.

This place is a petrified throne
And a courthouse of humidity;
It is an elven palace &
Primordial storefront.

Stripling marble
Armored by lichen
Faithfully recounting tales
Of gemlike ancestry &
Functioning as an urn
For deceased stars.

Spread my colored ashes
By air balloon into the edge of space;
Put my pulselike verse on a platter
And, warm or cold, serve to extraterrestrials.

Shatter bark & black-red leaves,
Centuries inside a smooth skull
Of dirt packed tight to
Protect earth's dendrites.

II.

Folio of the account
Of time's incompetence
& the triumph of eternity.

Page of crinkled eyesores,
Trophies, this is a badge of joy
For heroes, this is consolation
For the broken in their despair.

Rumination of the flame of seasons,
The lives entwined denatured slow
Processed, decomposed, combined:
This is the limitless romance of joy.

This is the ballerina's decrepit hindrance
Or the surrealist's eased departure.
Russian dolls folding dimension on dimension,
Bark is the launchpad & bizarre device
Of flight through this nature's cathedral.

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Notes

Hey everyone! Hope this post finds you well. I wrote this poem a few days back (actually on the same day I created my Podcast #1) when I was at one of my favorite natural spots to repose and take in the fresh mountain air. The flat rock in the picture above was my seat as I was writing this poem. It was a little nook of to the side of the waterfall that I haven't sat in before and I quite liked it. I recorded the recitation on my iPhone 5 in that spot so you can hear some ambient noise of the water behind me. The photos were also taken on my iPhone. I hope you enjoy it and have a wonderful day!!