Earth’s medicines

I passed through
a snowstorm of butterflies,

wide coral reefs of Watsonias
struck

by glints
of ten, fifteen Malachite sunbirds,

reached ethereal highways
of a sunray trapezium

stretched between tufty horizon
and the gushing gorge

where the Tyume River forges daily
through Space and Time.

I strode, mind-bowed
by sorrow’s experience

and drank Earth’s medicines
against human darkness.

                                      14th November 2014

 - Silke Heiss