Editors Note: This is a series of poems from writer Joachim Gibson, who writes fantastic poems about nature, his relationship with it, and all the wonders inside it.
"The Foals Flower"
A drop of rain,
descends down through the mesa’s sky
and is swiftly snatched by the cactus.
The snakeline skirt of a pasture,
weaves through the Nevada dirt,
its wooden rails cracked by torrid heat.
In the desert grass, a foal,
with its newly visioned eyes,
is searching for a picture.
The lull of a Scarlet Gilia,
the red against the sepia sand.
As the foal breathes
its pedals expand,
and out flies a bee.
"The Redolent Outing"
And so we went for a stroll,
through the paddock, up the hill pondering.
One heart broken, one heart whole
to find our place by wandering.
Somewhere the song of a hermit thrush
began to sing
dancing in and out of the brush.
Oh, the allure! The life of spring!
"Petrichor"
Watching the red paint peel,
off the barn,
exposing the cracked siding.
Watching the willow trees weep,
Heads turned low, mourning the covered sunrise.
Dragged by the nose, down the driveway
to the fields,
Where the petrichor manure steams.
The sun came through the clouds,
so I let it melt my skin and tear my eyes,
and the horses felt it too.