Heart.

"…walked down another trail on the grounds…so silent
so black velvety dark…Such comfort. Alone.

Propped myself up on an incline on the grass. My body dormant, laying, reclining.
Can’t hear anything… silent… my inner thoughts revealed.

Moon laced with a sheer scrim of gaseous clouds
--lifting any weight of the world--
soon dissolved to bless my eyes with Orion
(Beetlejuice in the middle…where I am from,
according to a childhood friend).

Suddenly a strong vision of you and I sitting on a cold concrete division of water and land,
now holding each other,

I feel you entwined in me.

Conducting the heat of mutual warmth…Baja…Ojai…in my mind.
Listening to the gorgeous air, breathing in the ocean.

Pains in my heart…the loss…the gain

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
hear the birds flying in the blackness?
Enjoying the journey of flying in harmony?

Absolutely mezmorizing…hmmmmmmm…
what a treat to treat the SELF."