Stretches

I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

—Wendell Berry

from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry

A path, a walkway,

a cobbled track,

hiking trails 

and mountain

passes, I seek 

passage through

beauty, amid limbs, 

leaves, blooms, 

and cool meadow 

grasses, to stretch 

my legs and mind,

to wander and wonder

under a luminous sky

and count the stars

God set in motion

until I drift into

a dreamy sleep

only to wake afresh

and tread out again.

—C.L. Fisher, January 2022

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