Roots
Spreading east and south
roots attach to sphagnum
softening rock above the permafrost
arms stretched open by
endless benevolence arresting
love in an embrace of absent
sunlight, luminous Borealis
painting sky lobes and heart
leaves with velvet infinite
crescendos of celestial music
played by ephemeral instruments
dressed in limpidity as if
declaring purity is as
plain to the eye as in every
peaceful mind of man or beast
Manolis Aligizakis 