I Have Seen Beautiful Trees

like
      umbrellas in Rome
      osteoporotic elders on the California coast
      Brobingdaggian Christmas trees in Oregon
      Willie Nelson's hair in Alligator Bayou
      burning fire in North Carolina
      sheltering arms in New Orleans
      muscled tenacity at The Great Stone Door

The Day of October Sky

Fall's vault of heaven, blue like Mary's cloak in an illuminated manuscript and that valuable. 

Glorious and burning: now robin's egg, then azure, or lapis, here ultramarine, below denim. 

Under October sky, rock, leaf, cloud, Air Force jet, stripped bark, red jacket, slate roof -- every thing shimmers, transformed, transforming me.