Frozen Inversion

... For the past two weeks an inversion has hovered over the homestead ... various life events have me in a daunting insomnia cycle .   Morning interludes with the events of each dawning day are my best moments right now...This is a free form narrative prose poem , from my minds and cameras eye ~

Frozen Inversion

Watching black and white in slow motion

Nature's sunrise hypothermia grips the crack of dawn ;

brushing away the frosty star dust ~
as it stretches and yawns ...

Rays of borrowed sunlight

enlighten winter’s darkness ,

igniting a pale dim glow on the hazy horizon ...

Daybreak’s sunrays ~ tease sleepy tree tops

Deer cuddle in the tall frost covered switchgrass ,

shivering to stay warm among the frozen fiddleheads

Soon the shining sunbeams will filter through

the ice crystallized fir brows ,

tantalizing dormant hope for brighter beginnings ...

Evergreen pinnacles lean towards

phantom solar encounters of organic cosmic delight ;

timber spires shadowing the quivering deer beneath,  

instinctively grounded deeply in mother earth's cocoon ~

The tall white leftover summer grass spikes

provide shelter from the cold winter night’s air ...

A familiar sense of safety overpowers

the numbness of their frosted fir hides

Thick haired winter coats

adorn sacred flesh and blood ,

warming the frost heaves

under the matted down carpet of chilly moss ...

The sun plays hide and seek

throughout the out stretchered gnarly arms

of the massive native oaks 

Thick frost coated lichens glisten

Ice sparkles and shimmers as if rays of hope

twinkle on the sleeping giant’s stature ...

White tuffs, like sugar coated cotton candy ,

slowly tease imagination and memory

as the ice crystals

hug each other for warmth

while the moment fades

to pearl grey ...

The frigid air slowly swirls ~

The morning's glow of the frozen sky

manifests into a kaleidoscope's vision
of cognac to magenta hues

A captivating , mesmerizing dawn

disappears in the blink of an eye ~

Turning an enchanting  moment’s paradise

into a whiter shade of pale ...

Harlon Rivers ... January 22nd , 2013

...photographs by Harlon Rivers

" Whiter Shade of Pale " ... David Lance 

instrumental piano