Along the Way

along the way

.

along the way

we spied a trinket

embedded in the earth

and

scooping it up

it erupted light

and showered

fingers of music

.

we aquainted ourselves

with the miracle of birth

again, anew, afresh

the startling sensation

of family

of death, renewal

of the circles

time wraps around life

and into the tiny

fingernails

attached to seven pounds

of new fruit

new labor

new love

anouncing the beginning of

Nigel Yeats

April 24, 2010pictured here with his first cousin

Paige Brooklyn

age: 5 weeks