Deer Vertebra
In silence
A wild beating heart
Drumming forth
Echoes from soul
A leaf turns
Water flows
Thunder rolls within
Ancestral drums calling me home
Nails scrabble on hard surface
Clinging, contracting, resisting
“Let go!” call the crows, “let go!”
S s s surrender!
First light of dawn
Bird song takes flight
Sweet release
I am home
In soulful silence
A wild beating heart
An echo, a whisper
Falling away
Into nothing
I am