High in hills, winds the road to your home
steeped and flowered by lupine towers
after long slumber, the waking hour – warmth of summer comes
our feet grassed and green, we wish dandelion dreams
watch tiny parachutes glide into the sea
this place is wild resplendent music, played of notes unknown
we have become more than ourselves, and slowed
have stopped to feel our breath grow
making a path, cut from last year
we are slipped and sloped toward shore
silhouetted, just before the end of sun
when the world sinks silent
but for the deeply toned
hum of whale song.