The Birthing

THE BIRTHING

            --for Vance

The face-shaping happened

in the time before time

arriving as being

emerging from cloud

to cloud focusing and gone

I glimpsed and saw

my own dying

and dying raised the camera

to the sky above the mountain

I was dead

in that terrorizing moment

my finger shutter-clicked

all evidence for the dreaming

here in my mountain testimony

presented in cloud-shaping-clarity

Jim Bodeen

2:30 am

19 August 2019