Angel Sightings is a book in 4 parts: Angel Sightings, Written on the Wind, Water Wizard and Stone Poems. The book attempts to open the eye of the mind to explore and celebrate the natural world. In addition, the reader is invited to go on a spiritual journey into the wilderness and to return with a sense of wonder.
Angel Crossing
There was a curve in space to mark the passage of fire Angels as they fled from dawn to dusk.
Tarrying not lest shadows of things unmade or badly made take them unawares.
Riding plumed serpents across the western sky and down to the edge of night.
Angel Sightingshttp://www.lulu.com/content/4786963Portion of table of Contents:
WRITTEN ON THE WIND 16
Smooth Bottomed Clouds 17
Thunder’s Back 18
Waiting for it to Rain 20
Preview of coming attractions 21
Nimbus of rain 22
Burnt Sunset 23
Cloud Craft: Mavens of the Mist 24
Guideposts on journeys into the mist 25
Canopy 26
Burning clouds 27
WATER WIZARDS 28
Drops on a Wire 29
Lake Affect: Morning Sheen 30
Cat’s paw and thunder at sunset 31
Stirring the drink 32
Falls 34
Gorged 35
Lake Land 36
Salt and Blue Skies over Badwater 37
Ancient Violence 38
Morning Ablutions 39
Shadow beaches 40
Glacial musings 41
Waterfalls 42
Sleeping on the mirror 43
Water signs 44
The Suns of Thunder 45
Paths to Nowhere 46
Blues for a blues man 47
Air Conditioned Crisis: Poetic Musings… 48
Old Music 49
Thicket of Thistles 50
Brass Sky 51
The Day begins in Mist 52
Dark Light 53
Waking on the mirror 54
Rain Hair 55
Softly the Morning Comes 56
Trackless 57
Morning Mist and Shallow Seas 58
Whistling Down the Wire 59
Birdsong 60
Distance Run 61
Penumbra 62
Water Wizards 63
Whether Report 64
Milk in a Dark Sea 65
Mist: Dust and Dawn 66
STONE POEMS 67
Painted Rocks 68
The Death of Stones 69
Australia 70
Alaska 71
Stone Trees 72
Winter Canyon 73
Mist on the mountain at sunrise 74
The beaded flesh of a stony lizard: rite of passage 75
ThunderStone: A Forest of Stones 76
Stone Sky 77
Black Stone Face 78
Daydreams of Stone Poets 80
Walking up the Stones 81
Solid Waves 82
Mountains of Ice 83
Cinder Cone 84
Visions of Cold Stone 85
Exposed Flesh 86
Mountain Vistas 87
