✨ Bird on the Mountain

open the trails...

Bird on the Mountain [excerpt]

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The to is
anticipation,
like the bird flying
to
her mountain,
like the brown eyes
looking
to
open the trails
scattered
with fallen trees,
like the mountain’s
thousand-year journey
to the sea.

—L.L. Barkat 

From Love, Etc., T. S. Poetry Press, © 2014. Photo by Aaron Burden, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.