Asleep in the Bracken - Obsequiae

Moss upwreathing petrichor

Broods becalmed evermore

Sleeping down misty corridor

(No one ever finds its door)

Among the moulting timbers

Threshing at the forest floor

I see all of thee

Where there was always

A doleful haunt presiding

Keeping all the secrets of the cairns

Vaulted boughs that score the air

Shelter birdsong and prayer

I know all of thee

Now here eyes are a thousand

Lifeless and descending stars

Adrift in the water, alone in her plight

Luminous spirit of a living light

Unnumbered brooks cut through the glade

Fragrant cedars of zephyrs swayed

As the shadows of autumn wane

And leaves contest to remain

Branches girded in ivy’s braid

By night the springs incandesce in jade