Freaky gentle spirits who do not impose
on landscape the same vigor
as Manzanita in summer,
the way it burns.
© 2012, Kathryn Gessner
Also visit Kathryn Gessner at http://posterous.com/users/hdozEtDvpXFdE#activities/page/1
And look for her poems in New Millennium Writings, Numinous Spiritual
Poetry, Red Rock Review, The Illuminations Book and the Squaw Valley
Poetry Anthology.