TRAVELING WITH LIGHT

You ask me why I’m leaving.

For no other reason
than light and air,

The depth of blue –
that long half dark of color
that wasn’t here before –

Beside it,
sun glinting off tree branches,
fastening to nothing –

Because
(for whatever reason)
this is the way the clouds flow.


Words and image by Sarah Rehfeldt. Please do not copy without my permission.

Poem and image published in Weber - The Contemporary West, vol. 32, no. 1 (Fall 2015).


Photographed on South Tiger Mountain, WA