"What's Found" by Sheila Packa

in the tangle of trees

in twigs

from branches

and trunks and roots

in the ephemeral

tenderness of green

leaves that last a season

in the trembling and wind

the blue of sky and lake

in clouds resounding

from a place of emptiness

a chamber that answers

in vibration, string and wind

a trembling, brimming and falling

in the place opposite of grief

the place opposite of dark

in the body of lost

in water and air

a star whose light

has ended but travels

toward us

rising and falling

in a cascade of notes

which is not endless

but aching and sweet

like iridescent feathers

of wings that rise and fall

in the circle of migration

in each flight

music that we breathe

"What's Found" by Sheila Packa from Echo & Lighting. © Wildwood River Press, 2010.