loose threads

Coffee beans and wet ink
Eucalyptus and lavender 
Oyster shells and chestnuts
Pine needles and ivory
Ripe cherries picked from the tree
Blueberry stained fingers
after you plunder a wild bush
Sunscreen, mountain air
Lake water skin
Wood smoke cologne
Five days gone since a shave
Dirt under your nails on your shins in your hair
You are alive, triumphant
an extension of the mountain’s peak 
reaching toward a wide blue sky

-rjm