The Rock in the Cove

I sit motionless, watching the deep, silent
night, here, upon the rock in the cove.
I think about tomorrow -- what will today
look like from then?

A rising wind beckons earnestly, taunting,
urging participation. I feel the moon
whispering to me....
Enter: inflections of reality, or is it
dream? Strands of violent color erupt
translucently around me
argent brilliance dallies
among the matte brown as the rock
sinks deeper, strata by strata
into my head.

Is this an alternate reality?
Time has no hold, it is a thing
of the past....
The moon is grinning.


The rock gathers dew as dawn
proceeds over the water.
I stir up on the rock... I
rise toward conciousness,
from the essence of what I am.
Time... time to leave the rock
in the cove, where it sat in the future
of yesterday.


©LJ Grandstaff    1988


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