Living Will & Trust

Flaxen drapes her cedar chest

Rainbows dye wreath braids

Pinned with twig tiaras,

Nests, where doves of peace lay wait

Silver Maples cradle

Ivy, canopied in shade

Veins of Blue Spruce Pine weep

Like the Willow trees cascade

Creeks whisper sweet nothings

Cherry lips speak, sunset’s mouth

Seas drunk on streams’ kisses

Eye of storms translate soul’s spout

Rivers cut through virgin skin

Tattoos inked, tanzanite

Platinum, gold and silver leached

Clay bones of marrow, mined

Hollow heart beats, swells and quakes

Waves crash beneath bare feet

Scales tilt, tare, tsunami

Salt of sorrow crests each knee

Pillars set in tungsten, stand

Flesh peeled in thunder’s truth

Foundry fashioned lightning

Fire’s kiln where all is proofed

Kissed by death, her nemesis

Time steals Life’s laurel crown

Revealed as weak in nakedness

When winter strips her gown

Until through Beauty’s Gate arrives

Her Prince of Spring is found

Sowing seeds of Eden

Florid jewels stud fallow ground

As tines of wind brush golden wheat

Sun drips from honey combs

Illuminating children’s wings

The heirs unto Earth’s throne

photo credit: I. Pettus