Photograph by Mike Tripp

Redwood lady
My veil above me lady
Hush and hush

Our whispering lady

All around me is Thunder
Coyote I love you
I see you looking away
I do not see you
This is the way

Seeing

Manzanita, Madrone
Capture fire in your branches
Sweep the trail
Clean over the Moon

Stone I am beneath you