I stand at land’s end
atop a soaring precipice
jutting into the Pacific
observing an Osprey
it’s suspended in flight
aloft on the westerly breeze
billowing up
then wafting down the cliff
I’m mesmerized
stretching before me
undulating azure blue
falling away
over earth’s edge
into forever
unfurling below
a white ribbon of sand
fragile
pristine
a breath between eternal sea
and towering rock facades
flanking left and right
in sweeping panorama
Indian Beach
the Oregon Coast
in all it’s majesty
this is my summer perch
since first I discovered it
thirty years ago
now it offers me brief refuge
from the COVID pandemic
sweeping the world
my thoughts are adrift
just then
the breeze freshens
disrupts my reverie
tosses my hair
buffers my chest
I shudder
bracing against vertigo
swept up in a feeling
oh to be un-tethered
weightless
no longer earthbound
like that Osprey
my eyes close
my soul lifts
takes wing
soars skyward
I’m flying!
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