Jennifer Lagier- A Poem & Photo

 

 

Diffusion

 

Monochrome morning etches cypress fronds

against tinny horizon, silvery dunes.

 

Ascending mist hijacks the eye,

swaddles sun within translucent scrim.

 

Ragged shoreline lacerates surf swell.

Harbor seals drag themselves onto high ground.

 

Here and there, patrolling pelicans reconnoiter

seething schools of abundant anchovies.

 

I wander, pulled by muted radiance,

warming earth, a burning planet’s bronze trail.