October 2020
Michael Gessner
mjcg3@aol.com
Author's Note: Recently, my son and I went fly fishing on the icy waters of the East Verde River in northern Arizona; the only place in the world where there are Gila trout, and until 2006, were on the endangered species' list. A bio. note along with other information may be found here.

Cloud Reading

What does desire want
beyond other desires?
Perhaps this is a question
for desire itself.
 
Those daily formations thought
to be sylphs, essences, or argosies,
tell us all that is or will be
in their reformations.
 
Are we not born
with a sense about the world
that does not leave us—
is this not the text of the unknown?
 
I have waited all my life
for such lines as these—or those 
clouds make, but they only turn and billow
as they have done today, or as they will tomorrow.
©2020 Michael Gessner
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