Expanded Now

Out at dawn in April snow,

Feet sliding on the hill

Legs, lungs and beating heart

Become aware of a larger beating rhythmic step

In sync,

With a season,

A process,

A weather system’s sweep;

The vast wrap-around Newfoundland and then back down to where I stand

Still.

This is where I find myself much larger than first thought.

Clouds and snow moving in service to a greater imperative

Than my step by step impatient climb –

That we are as big as continents

In our containment of large mysteries,

That we reflect the wheel and spin of star systems,

That stepping stones can be the size of decades;

You can open yourself up

To this

In the movement of your

Mind’s eye.