heads of stone face the waves that rush \/ clapping against the body of the island
shallow lip of white \/ against the rising of earth \/ flowering in sharp green trunks of life
parabolic line of erosion \/ eruption etched into the rock \/ crags smoothed and jutting
upright before the deep blue \/ warm under a thundercloud \/ full-sail drifting
like a slow oncoming storm towards a nameless place, where people and gulls pass
wondering, staring, waiting as the land fades into sea and the sea into sky \/ all-beginning
forests drink up the alchemies of water and air \/ from the root of the wide Aegean shore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
speaking of life in color \/ the palate of textures rough and dry under unforgiving sunlight
falling over spectrums of earth where the blue sea becomes green shore \/ whitened
crests lapping at the feet of dark brown stone \/ the few and far secluded beaches
until the stone of the nude island mount is shown \/ white rising in points and crumbling
the soil where trees grow softens under floorings \/ tufts of immaculate greenery
low atop its height \/ cut against the lightest blue \/ wisps of off-white clouds beyond
seen behind sail masts stretching out in the slight breeze \/ momentums to parallel coasts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
waving from water to stone to air \/ eye level \/ the boat and a forest \/ above the sail
toward the sky \/ the land moves up for a tree \/ seeds flown in by the migrating birds
it descends with the erosion of roots \/ weather returning \/ from light to the deep
from blue to blue \/ the earth around plunges like an island submerged by silence
stilled to the following of the few who laugh and sing \/ read and see
listening for the ways of the land between sea and sky \/ feeling for the depths and heights
of blue, sea to sky \/ wandering without a hint of a map \/ not asking where or why
lost between blues and floating over the sea, by air \/ and on through the moveable forests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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