hidden

(Pollak Vineyards - Greenwood, Virginia)

* * *

...hard to believe they'll bloom,

much less bear fruit again,

this landscape of a thousand crucifixes

looking lifeless

and beaten...

but within each cross

flows the blood of beginnings,

perennial promise

of return...

of resurrection...

beneath the stillness,

this suspended animation,

are stirrings...

The scene which holds for the eye only death

belies unseen Life within...

welling up,

mustering,

and moving in ancient circadian concert 

with all of Creation

as it readies itself

for

 The Reveal.

* * *

"To everything there is a season, 

a time for every purpose under heaven"

-Ecclesiastes 3:1