Duet

Voice of eagle,
Voice of lark
lace-like
rising through a sky
against storm clouds dark
and brilliant-edged
the silver dashing rain
about to fall…

Harmonics rising
building vast
relentless
out of the mighty stones:
deep thunder
not of clouded skies
but from earth’s very heart
resounds…

Bright song pierces
crying angel-high;
God-profundo
out of abyssal silence
suddenly
was always there…

Duet sublime
as Life and Death
are One.

_{May 2011 CL Redding
revisions 2024}