Christmas Wishes

Enduring Wishes from Fleeting Light

This glass in a shop window,
Refracting the light from the mountains
On a break day in Vail
When I was young and free
Of common cares for a moment,
Flashed the shifting colors
Of a rainbow in the iris of my eye
And has done that carelessly
Again and again
In fleeting moments of clarity
For almost thirty years
In less grand settings
In the hills of Holly
And flatlands by the Gulf sea.
Such is the serendipitous flash
Of a distant vision of beauty
Captured in molten sand
In the mind of an artist
And an intervening mold,
Transformed on this Sun day
Before Christmas, 2010.
Sent like wishes
From an unflagging glow
Of charcoal light shifting
In the breeze,
With wanton care less
Unfettered fleeting
Moments of Love,
That you will find
As many rainbowed moments
For as long,
JM