The blue heron makes a sound like the world is ending.
Ripping like doomsday through the air.
a regal beak, a torrential sound.
I thought life might be over, if you’d heard it too, you’d know.
Lake Padden, Washington, via iPhone 15
illusionary
Feels like you’ve been here before,
illusionary doors,
unsettled stagnant scores.
superfluous facts
Hope
Above all else.
May love and hope, which is our natural state,
be what we return home to.
6:45am
Sleepless, but with a silver lining.