Angel Sightings

Angel Sightings is a book in 4 parts: Angel Sightings, Written on the Wind, Water Wizard and Stone Poems. The book attempts to open the eye of the mind to explore and celebrate the natural world. In addition, the reader is invited to go on a spiritual journey into the wilderness and to return with a sense of wonder.

Angel Crossing

There was a curve in space to mark the passage of fire Angels as they fled from dawn to dusk.

Tarrying not lest shadows of things unmade or badly made take them unawares.

Riding plumed serpents across the western sky and down to the edge of night.

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Portion of table of Contents:

WRITTEN ON THE WIND 16

Smooth Bottomed Clouds 17

Thunder’s Back 18

Waiting for it to Rain 20

Preview of coming attractions 21

Nimbus of rain 22

Burnt Sunset 23

Cloud Craft: Mavens of the Mist 24

Guideposts on journeys into the mist 25

Canopy 26

Burning clouds 27

WATER WIZARDS 28

Drops on a Wire 29

Lake Affect: Morning Sheen 30

Cat’s paw and thunder at sunset 31

Stirring the drink 32

Falls 34

Gorged 35

Lake Land 36

Salt and Blue Skies over Badwater 37

Ancient Violence 38

Morning Ablutions 39

Shadow beaches 40

Glacial musings 41

Waterfalls 42

Sleeping on the mirror 43

Water signs 44

The Suns of Thunder 45

Paths to Nowhere 46

Blues for a blues man 47

Air Conditioned Crisis: Poetic Musings… 48

Old Music 49

Thicket of Thistles 50

Brass Sky 51

The Day begins in Mist 52

Dark Light 53

Waking on the mirror 54

Rain Hair 55

Softly the Morning Comes 56

Trackless 57

Morning Mist and Shallow Seas 58

Whistling Down the Wire 59

Birdsong 60

Distance Run 61

Penumbra 62

Water Wizards 63

Whether Report 64

Milk in a Dark Sea 65

Mist: Dust and Dawn 66

STONE POEMS 67

Painted Rocks 68

The Death of Stones 69

Australia 70

Alaska 71

Stone Trees 72

Winter Canyon 73

Mist on the mountain at sunrise 74

The beaded flesh of a stony lizard: rite of passage 75

ThunderStone: A Forest of Stones 76

Stone Sky 77

Black Stone Face 78

Daydreams of Stone Poets 80

Walking up the Stones 81

Solid Waves 82

Mountains of Ice 83

Cinder Cone 84

Visions of Cold Stone 85

Exposed Flesh 86

Mountain Vistas 87

Waking the Mirror

The mirror sleeps the long night.

When it is dawn and the ritual begins

Waking the mirror

At first small bright flying things

Each shinning with its own light

Each admires its reflection as they fly westward

Then day glow white herons or egrets

spread their massive wings so that the sleepy mirror gets an eye full

and at last, the sun, burning with the white hot fires of a new day

marshals all the hues of the rainbow

calls them by name

and demands they speak their colors into the liquid mirror

The glass is full of light.

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Angel Sightings

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