Dreams

1
 
 The mountains around him opened in great flashing crevasses and
out poured men and women by the hundreds, smiling and laughing;
he was a monitoring eagle seeing life from all angles
 
Then he was the one seen, like a monitoring eagle glimpsed in the
trees, a rare and beautiful symbol.
 
Then again he was the eagle's eye, hidden in the deep branches of
a pine, far above, an eye that understood everything.
 
 2
 
 the rockface launched from its chasms
           bright orange skiers
 auroras flashed then drifted
           the skiers were crepe paper
 
 the mountain had a mouth
           and it ate passing airplanes
 the conscience of the Adirondacks
           is the sandwort is the tundra yew
 
 a volley of clouds whipped past
           the trees and over the valley
 where Mount Mansfield was ready
           with its down the line return