Dappled, dappled, dappled

Windy, autumned lanes
Punctuated by rainfilled pools
Dappled with fallen, sunkissed leaves
Dappled with light
Dappled with pictures into the azure skies
Dappled with hope
Unreachable
Unknowable but extant and true.

A stillness in the present
Unrippled
Unbroken
Taught
This tangential force, upholding the fallen
Reflecting the light
Keeping the stillness
for a momentary now

And as we run with frosted hedgerows
and a spent summer
As greedy winter makes true its promises
These dappled puddles
Soon to tighten and close
Ice skinned
Earth fast
Become bound in time
For a time

And as irresistible
another season
an Eastertide is promised,
and returns
and as our closest star rises in our view
and days lengthen
slate turns a titian hue
And those puddles one by one
Become
Undappled
and undone, anew.