he lies sleeping under the sage green sheet on his side turned away from me and my intrusive light
the sheet is gathers about him like grass upon the mountain range that peaks at shoulders and hip
at tne bead head, a tangle of jungle vines curled and intertwined and the sound of a bear embarking on a short winters hibernation
at the foot, ten pebbles of varying size attached to two size eleven boulders of a sunbrowned material aged by sun, surf and sand yet on the underside a pale pink, reminiscent of the delicate inside of the finest seashell
the grass on the upper reaches of the moutain range, waves as the wind sighes in and out of the bear-cave mouth and the plains of the lower shift in small earthquake tremors before settling in somulant torpor