as i baste in the aroma
of sauteed onions mushrooms
and sweet red peppers
i masque as my memoirs
appear through the delicate
vapors
crazed in saphire starlight
a solitary leaf
tumbles swirls and spirals
unique as a feline flame
'till a gathering mound is
appraised for rebirth
the closer you get
the nearer the earth
by ritt