Month: June 2021

Heatwave

/ Korin Thomas / 2 Comments

All is still. The quiet gathering
of heat, searching in waves
for every corner and shadow.

We stop our lives and wait –
motor, pounding, playing
sounds missing from the day.

Here the dragon moves.
We long for it to pass us by
sitting in our dark and silent spaces.

Calm pervades. A great long breath
pours over our land and our thoughts
in slow and silent exhalation.

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Portland, Oregon – June 28, 2021

Today it will get up to about 115 degrees in Portland.

At Rest

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When at rest I am alone.

Not measured by what I do
by what I’ve done.
Compassed then by time and space –
what may be or may become of me.

At rest, I fall short of the mark
figured along these vast metrics.
Without line to follow, goal
whereon to set my gaze
I wallow – at rest.

Shall I learn to allow
rest to overtake me?
In its open arms
release unto time and space
to welcome what may come?

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Portland, Oregon – June 8, 2021