perspective shifts
decades have passed entire lifetimes come and gone
these mountains
tender as I traverse the pine blanketed incline
up close so changed yet just the same
only I so different
from here not there this microscope view of sameness
nineteen eighty twenty twenty five
same and so different
this landscape so alive
myself so alive less so though than then
was I not ready then to see this panned view
could I only digest the distance
and call it enough experience
was there oppoprtunity to vibrate with the mountain energy
then and now
the earthquakes the slashes to the face
this landscape of body so alive
still