Tight Skin

Snake on moist clay stream bed evaporating in arroyo next to 'Land of Shining Stones'.

Abiquiu, New Mexico

Tight Skin

5/23/11

The shedding has begun

like some dragonfly nymph

or snake wriggling free

of confining old 'self',

it's butterfly escaping chrysalis

and children outgrowing clothes

as growth demands expanse

in all life territories,

I imagine undulating innards

pushing, pulling, contracting, resting,

muscles, fluted bone, sinew,

cells, blood vessels, organs

moving about, pulsating, separating

from what 'once was',

vulnerably entering new world

sensitive to energetic influences

that began with dreaming

veiled destined future, transmitted

behind eyelids of consciousness

inherently perceiving spectral vision

spherically illuminating multifaceted potential,

now embraced as 'true'

through heart, soul knowing

which startles complacent stasis,

sends love enthused body

bursting beyond tight skin.