What Clouds Do To Mountains


A cloud moves over a mountain
Just as
A mountain moves over a cloud.
It is the cloud that makes the mountain
Move over a cloud
That makes a mountain
Move.










Breathing


The tree moves now. I know that it is breathing.
Inhale and exhale. The wind tells which direction.
My mind, a tree, moves like this tree sometimes.
And sometimes it is itself the wind.


A greater place than this? There is another mentioned.
One second of surrender though is hard enough to show.
Often I have searched to find the earth's dimensions,
but now I see the hillside so gently touched by snow.


Most of life is breathing. The rest is left to thought.
I have stood before, together, two places all at once.
This evening I shall rest my head upon the ground I love.
At dawn, with all my breath, I will blow across the valley.