I drown in the azure pool
Beneath a dry, blue sky
Effigy of warm turquoise air

There’s clamor, I cannot see the ball
Thrown by the child
Suddenly it falls

I try to rise in flight
Read the sparkling waves
They hold me, murmuring

Let yourself go
Do not think
Become the Sea

I squeeze my wet eyes shut
Wings like fins
I turn into a dolphin

Swiftly skims the slender wave
I find myself on the shore
Greeting the watery enchantment

At night I fall asleep
Awake, the sun rises
My paws are roots

Mother Earth, gently
Reveals a great secret
My tree, you shall wander

With translucent foliage
And a trunk all white
You will rise high above

Without thus belonging
On a thousand leaf-wings
Strong, free Birch

Lazzaro _2024