I FEEL LIKE I'VE JUST BEEN BORN

I FEEL LIKE I’VE JUST BEEN BORN

I came upon a little wing

Sprouting from a stump.

It resembled a seedling

Testing the possibility

Of happiness beyond

Annihilation.

-c.k 6.2.2014

 

 Dearest Readers,

I’ve been in Peacham, Vermont a week now. As soon as I place my feet on Hapenny Road, Mack’s Mountain Road and then on down to “Downtown” Peacham, I feel like I’ve just been born. 

Hear 4 seconds on YouTube at http://youtu.be/LvOUleZzlJI

I’m exhilarated by the sound of the feeder freshets that border the way, gaining size and power, surging through a rock wall to wind up in creeks and marshes. 

I notice a leaf that falls, or the sunlight on an impromptu pond in a tire track swimming with one water skipper who found a home in this unlikely oasis. How amazing is the fecundity of life!

The view can be sunny and wide, pungent with the smell of new mown hay

Or jammed with vegetation in a dappled field

Sometimes the landscape is deep, dark and wet with secret lives

Or suddenly spotlighting a fragile violet

The warbling song of a single vireo pierces the air above the crunch of my feet through the fallen leaves of last year’s riotous spring.  http://youtu.be/48QdPovM1mU