golden  teacher

my golden teacher

you talk of planets, time and space

destruction and rebirth

your hands dancing in air

as flames illuminate your face

 

distant cars flash orange rectangles

through conifer spines

I poke the fire as geese land on the lake

and honk their delight

 

and now you talk of Jupiter saving our earth

from meteor attack and the rise of mankind

from the bottom of seas

jet-sized pterodactyls swooping on dinosaurs

feeding on mushrooms the size of trees

 

and i look to the night sky and listen

i listen

as psylocibin serotonin turns wonder into smile

sweeps recently surfaced doubts with the brush of love

and up splash pike into the crisp air of night

 

how deep is that water? you ask

will you let me swim?

yearning for warm safety of womb

evolution reversed through the pull of the moon

 

dragging the tide to when we crawled out from seas

celestial searching wavelengths of light

ten thousand years and a million miles

deaths and rebirths and giants at war

raging infernos before mankind was born

 

i ask you a question and you talk of your self

orange turns into green and purple intense

you acknowledge your dark side

depression and death

and the flames turn blue

but you don’t sink into depths

 

burning wood cracks reptilian white

two humbled beings on the curve of the earth

we crawl up mud and huddle overnight

in our tiny space in this giant universe

 

and we keep ourselves warm in each other’s arms

and sleep while the owl calls its wise call