Forest Spotlights Have you noticed how light shines into the forest To spotlight, transfix, invite us Drawing attention to focus on its present priority of beauty How would we stand a chance to notice anything at all If we were left to our complete wonderment and awe Without sun’s focus letting us light on what’s chosen How else would we turn to the fern furl at the base of a Douglas fir Or spot Olympic’s first spring snowdrop flower Why, we would miss the most spectacular moments Falling subject to the broad view When there are ants in our midst and bliss awaits through the lens Magnified mosses moving ever so slightly as budding leaves quiver We would overlook it all if it weren’t for the filter of sun’s selection Through cedar webbings, I am taken in by the playing and the pointing Parameters within which I am to study the smaller A student of tree sculpture captured in my camera Clicking over and over the short-lived painter’s shades Of permanent green and ochre amber In just a minute or less, the magical moment has left And I continue on until she shines again to point my head By Laura E. Garrard, Copyright 2021 April 12, 2021 [Top Photo: "Sunshine," by Laura E. Garrard, Copyright 2021]
All photographs by Laura E. Garrard, Copyright 2021
Poetry In Time 