Indigenous

Without end or beginning,

I wait for you.

Near night I hunger for darkness.

Shadows of lilting swans

we plunge from cliffs of vertigo

into the gold dust of desire.

You are the hoarfrost of winter,

brilliant bursts of Autumn’s fire,

solitary eagle above the mountains.

Beneath  your wings streams

of infinity carry you to my shore.

Should you fly on to distant provinces

I will follow,

become  indigenous to that land.

Birds of South Asia