It's Not
Now, it's not 9:43, Wednesday morning,
With high wisps of clouds finger-painting the soft-blue sky,
Above a lake so smooth it might be liquid stasis,
And it's not September 22, 2010,
Located amidst a vast northern-Wisconsin forest
Of summer's green oaks, birches, maples, cottonwoods, pines,
Fast transitioning, from high-fifty-degree afternoons,
Through mid-thirties nights,
Into a mélange of bright oranges, scarlets, yellows, and browns,
So much as it's now — immediacy, being, existing —
An ever-present presence, whose essence fills me with ecstasy,
A breathing halo beneath which my spirit shimmers
Beyond the seconds, minutes, hours that tell my earthly time,
A now of sky, trees, lake, air, birds, squirrels, and sand,
Which, all the while, recognizes the mandate of my transience.
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