Amelia Nicol
Path and Shape

Path and shape
Shape and Path
Difference in color contrasting shapeliness
the height of branches almost entirely obscures
distances imagined, seemed like a short path
the altitudes of distance and looming expectancy limits
seasons changing without notice
the coincidences of falling down looking upward, distracted noise
the differences in these leaves bright movement
and the river hushing.
Falling or rotting divides of time
thin air escapes expectation, difference in distance
the recurb of season, these small increments
of non-melodic noise, a distance traveled
by evergreens in root systems
catching a pattern of swaying wind
Gold and evergreen, gold and blue sky
these musical dreams and noisy underpinnings
a tree to take my pulse, wind for the pressure
word needs from my lungs, spoken or not
the wind a hawk and eagle drift on, now
smells so warm and cuts so cold.