Rockfowl

Dappled with sunset

Clouds drift above leafless trees

Shatter into night.

Fed by mountain snows

Cold blue shivering river

Rushes through valley.

Snow falls on flowers

Promise of spring half hidden

By winter’s white veil.

Clouds curl together

Against freezing fantasy

Of warm winter skies.

Bay littered with hearts

Left by haunted travelers

Almost lost my own.

Purple painted mist

Clouds begin and mountains end

With dusky whispers.

Mountains cloaked with trees

Fringed by endless ebb and flow

Of sun polished surf.