Fish Blessing

[summer_jackel]

I went to the river on a sacred day
Seated myself on
green grass
Looked down into the still, brown-green water.
I saw one, at first:
Small, fleet
Spotted fish
Salmon smolt
Moving in the light.
And then more
and then they unfolded
subtle as the patterns in a tapestry
revealing themselves,
living, moving, whole
to a still and seeing
receptive eye
as blessings. As benedictions.

---For Alyx and Leo, (friends since high school) married 8.15.08

Comments

[kimberly-t.livejournal.com]

beautiful.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)