TEMPORARY SANITY

I sailed a blue-sky road

right over the curve and up

the frozen curls of rock

through black evergreens

surfing with white aspen

on the way to Eagles Nest

and Angel Fire until my cup was

so full it spilled over, anointed

my head, and I drowned in

beauty.

I slurped water from

my hand in the creek

while that thing inside me

was blown away with a bird’s

worth of freedom. Horizons

in the air atop those cliffs...

I soared and dove inside a

spinning kaleidoscope.

I would live here and thrive

until tomorrow and hoped

that day would never come.

And you, my lover, nestled

down with me in the splash of

wildflower days. We lay

together until that sweet

seduction we call time, 

tucked us into some bitter winter

night where the vast stars waited.

Reviews

[Lorry]

Don't you just love swimming and diving into kaleidoscopes? It's like living in a cartoon where the nearby starburst and skittles factory exploded and all the fire engines they sent turn into yellow submarines! 😃
I'll have some of that temporary sanity too Vol. 😃

[Vol]

Lorry,
People seem to have a hard time laughing these days. The s**t has hit the fan, but thank you sir, for keeping a good eye on what is really important... If everyone got a kaleidoscope to play with, well maybe we'd feel better. maybe for just a few minutes...
vol

[Pete]

it sure is nice when it is ours. not easy to come by in an increasingly insane world. when we find it we hold on and enjoy for we know not what tomorrow will bring. very nicely said.

[Ken Simm.]

Rather than temporary insanity this is the cure for the other one.

[Vol]

I first want to Angel Fire and Eagles Nest about 25 years ago... places where it was hard to breath because of all the beauty, from that sapphire lake to he trees and jagged slopes. A man in the mineral shop told me I had a job as an English teacher there, and all I had to do was ask. When i got back to Tennessee, I began to research the possibilities. That evening we watched a movie that was set in a town nearby to that place, and one of the characters got caught in a blizzard... I have way too much Florida blood in me to ever want to hear my name and that word in the same sentence... As pretty as it is I prefer the balmy, turquoise waters of the Gulf of Mexico, hurricanes and all...
Vol

[Ken Simm.]

I have felt the same in several places. The pacific ar Big Sur. Inch Strand, Dingle Ireland watching the Atlantic breakers on a clear day. And when I first saw where I live now. Sometimes it is not the place it is what is happening like when I saw all of Monets paintings of the facade of Rouen cathedral all at one time.

[Vol]

Ken!
All that Monet at one time? and you lived to tell the tale...

[John the Baptist]

If this is temporary sanity, I would file for an extension.

[Vol]

John,
Man the majestic mountains of Northern New Mexico are a sight to humble the most arrogant of souls... but they have blizzards there... so no, I'll just keep the summertime memories.
Vol