Elusive flow.

Standing in the flow, emerald clear chill.
I know in my mind and heart you are there, in your space.
I'm here visiting again. With honorable intensions. Only to grasp your spirit for a moment.
Then you'll free me to play in your home another day.
A sudden pull, then a furry of struggle. Your truth becomes my truth, to be free again.

Lower Yuba 12.20.09

Any Creek, Cathedral Peak

Harvest Sky sets.
Rust Caddis flutter about.
Rainbow acrobats.

Ice forming.
Chill in the shadows.
Aspens turning leaves.

Membraneous wings hibernate.
Last hatch over.
Longing for more trail.

On the trail again.

Braided water cascading.
Mossy log crossings.
Slip, now wet boots

Mixed agitated surface.
Occasional drifting lens,
reveals hidden fish.

Golden, red, blue parrs.
Within cirque fed flow.
Swims from my approach

Misty rain falling.
Fly sags, dribbles. Another
damp down morning.

Masked face peers.
Sleekly traverses talus ahead.
Under a weasels watch.

Pika calmly watches.
Two legs lumbering by.
I'm entertainment.

Snow covered peak,
levitates above the clouds.
Beckons adventure.

Evolution Basin 08

Bright granite shimmers.
Cascade burnished bench.
Golden, red blue fish.

Membranous wings beat.
Evening pines whisper "glow"!
Single Malt easy.

Ridges silhouette deeper than night
Tea cup and Virgo blur.
Fire-ring tales whispered.

Stani-Ku 2

bluffs, rusty pumice
through rocks running, turquose blue
palmerd hackle intices

chrome flash, zip zoom
flowing motion bending wand
spreakeled bow swims free.

pussy willows and fig tree buds
three ssg's a copper john
become one, re-rig

drifting chaneal transforms
salmanoids descretion fooled
worm puppet subdues

blue dicks, fiddlenecks
water breathed is constant life
while wind above suffocates

like wind flowing, riffle
tug, opposition, final surrender
final release to breath again.

Stani-ku

Pale Duns Flutter at Dawn
Willows' Polen drifts
Oh my runny nose.

A Fig tree's shaded silhouette
Hiding my shadow, cast across stream
Tug then zoom.

Glide into my net
Callibatis flavor of the day
from my hand swim free.

Knapsack Snow Wish 09

Cirrus clouds whisper
Sierra crest enveloped by snow
My rain jackets wet.

Mono Creek rushes
Rainbows rise to Salmon flies
Osprey circles high.

Lilies and lupine
Bumble bee bumbles about, yellow legs
Knapsackers eye, the welcome note.

Violet, red sky
Swallows swoop, Bats flutter
I love DEET.

Leopard prints in snow
Feed Lower Ottoway
Over falls, Valley to Bay.