Aug 2016
route number nine
we traveled your spine
over two lane vertebra
an occasional scoliotic stray
pass farmer hands in fields
on tractors of painted steel
labored maze rows to feed cattle:
chattel
windowed wind in evening's chatter
filtered light, komorebi, back matter
natural at fifty miles an hour
time melting spills of roadside flowers
and press of an orange-red moon
you unwrap its butterscotch rune
full of eons of seeing eyes, candy store watch
its popcorn face staring, tick-tock
then high-beams replace the sun's
intervals of lightning bug reflectors
into dark, deer vision, tunnel turns
and newly oiled ticking blacktop
distant into day's finish, night
journey's last braking bights
in memories gloaming sight
of a rural tale spin write
-cec
we traveled your spine
over two lane vertebra
an occasional scoliotic stray
pass farmer hands in fields
on tractors of painted steel
labored maze rows to feed cattle:
chattel
windowed wind in evening's chatter
filtered light, komorebi, back matter
natural at fifty miles an hour
time melting spills of roadside flowers
and press of an orange-red moon
you unwrap its butterscotch rune
full of eons of seeing eyes, candy store watch
its popcorn face staring, tick-tock
then high-beams replace the sun's
intervals of lightning bug reflectors
into dark, deer vision, tunnel turns
and newly oiled ticking blacktop
distant into day's finish, night
journey's last braking bights
in memories gloaming sight
of a rural tale spin write
-cec
komorebi - means the sunshine filtering through the leaves of a tree (or trees)-can also be seen as a light curtain which is more visible after the rain because of the reflecting light from the water vapor: also mentioned as the interplay between the light and the leaves which is observed especially on the ground. Additionally, there is a rare phenomenon when the light of the crescent sun during a partial solar eclipse is dappled on the ground in crescent shapes (which is circular normally)
