Hemlocked Heart

Between brief rays of weak sunlight
Water commands the granite sky

Slowing the world of air to liquid’s time
Water weighted air breaths slow, rhythmic

Hummingbirds hide in oleander bushes
Deer shelter under canopies of live oaks

Quickness lives only in the saturated places
River’s rush, droplet’s plummet, pond’s swell

For this day, land and sky live in soaked unison
Briefly, no longer at odds their lost kin, the sea