Dense Mists

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

The great blue heron

tickles her breast

on springtime buds

as she

lifts and plunges

her laborious wings

over a ridgetop canopy

wet with dense mists

at dusk.

I do believe that Nature

knows something

of foreplay.

(c) 2011/Jamie K. Reaser
from "Sacred Reciprocity: Courting the Beloved in Everyday Life"