Two Poems – By Kathleen Scavone

Fog


The interplay of land and fog,

Multiple micro-systems

Display dissimilar versions of vapor.

In places it floats, or rolls, billows or mists.

Energy captured and released in slow motion,

Vaporous kaleidoscope of muted winter colors:

Tan, brown, beige and grey.

Fog descends, deep penetrating cold,

Infiltrates my lungs, clings to clothes.

Drive Soda Bay Road for snapshots

Of a cotton-covered lake,

Panoramic Mt. Konocti framed by fog,

Wild nature sound of coots muted 

As they disappear in a wet cloud.

Fog fades, a lone kayaker materializes from the mist,

Fog filters, sifts the past into the present,

Nature's timeline.

Early Morning Stargazing


A new morning

Dawn's illumination immanent,

The world still slumbers

As I wonder at the dome of the universe beyond.

I place my attention on the still-singing stars,

Those twinkling lanterns of light,

Celestial objects, spheroids

Created within clouds and dust dispersed

Throughout the galaxies. 

Soon our star, the sun

Will shift my perspective 

Into the blessed new break of dawn's

Celestial radiance