Postpartum epiphanies I'm shuddering against a stonewall taking into myself the smoke, snowy hills and the quiet of the pine trees I feel awake as the noise in my head starts to dissipate I go under water between thoughts and comeback up for air once a conscious realization dawns as sentences blooming in my third eye The solitude in these mountains is medicine for me like lighting sage it mends the holes I possess in my aorta This large Earth is turning soft I can't trace it in the swift grey clouds or the suns hide and seek game I'm tongue-tied on the ecliptic orbits I trip over the luminaries movement The trees whisper faint stories but i am ear-less to their memories I wish I could close my eyes and fall asleep to their song-tales like a child at bedtime I'm faceless to this circumstance I feel like shattered glass The future seems at once both short-sighted and vast I'm getting through on faith believing my time is precious and too rare to spend it in a cage