Seven Steps to Oblivion

Seven Steps to Oblivion 

(reflections off a rock)

Photo by Jo Miles: Jumpoff lookout with distant smoke

 Seven steps to oblivion.   

You climb the seven steps up to the

old cabin, step on the catwalk,

enter the door.  All is as it was, now

You hear the wind through the guy wires,

The wind around the corners,

And over the top

Of this strong old relic.

     The breezes and the cooling

Against the sun through glass

     Balancing a cold planet

   Against what heat

 Can be captured

     From the afternoon.

This is the code of planets

      Circling the night sky

           Circling the crystalline Orbit./mh

Tieton Sky/ mh

And, looking down river, October 2012

                                                              Tieton River/ mh