On A Western Rock click to hear recording of poem
This cold blood thaws
as father fire above
bathes backside
with invisible fire breath
also warming underside
with rock reflected heat.
Then the day dream
anciently recurring
evolving and refined
over eons of long siestas
since fiery creation
streams upward.
Warm rock daydream
of midday bask
absorbed from this rock
through magical osmosis
streams upward
through grey lichen
into rainbow belly
where grateful blood burns.
Streams upward.
A reverberation of
that primal word spoken
into ancient earth crucible
and streaming upward ever since
to enchant the heart of this rock
this lichen
this lizard.