subtext

across a wider range of occurrence

patterns invested within the day

emerge like eddy’s leaf swirl

around trees’ roots trailing

darkly into a silent creek

each moment’s inconsequential

a random turn of light within

yet another moment glimmers

again to become lost in the dazzle

of the sun settling across a lake

those transcendent seconds drift like

butterflies above yarrow’s umbrellas

lost in the slow autumnal collapse

into barren winter’s softer desires