May Showers

Rain shower, Kintra, Isle of Mull, Scotland

May Showers

5/3/09

Mists of Beltane's past

surround my hidden enclave

refreshing leaves, their color

contrast against gray sky,

the birds are singing

scurry about, scratching, leaping,

playing like little children,

their delight is contagious

breaking into easy smile

I breath moist oxygen,

olfactory sense spurs memories

of Indiana boyhood years

forgotten times when happy,

exhilarated by life's mystery

being somehow in cahoots

with whole outrageous miracle

whose purity raced inside

every cell I was

igniting my enthusiastic core

into heaven, earth, marriage

enthralled to be me

fully embodied and aware

in peak of attention

for that moment, then,

as now, informed by

so much distant happenstance

May showers remind of.