Aiks

.                                                 A pale    and acorn
       stippled skin                of scuffing                dry
  history              behind
eyes                          walking through woods
                 golden
duff           layers of thick
   and giving    brown leaves    with
                                                          a head of autumn
                                                   late season light
           snuffling
  rooting
  rolling in the dust                  thick trunks
                                                          twisted branches
  late
life           mating              buoyant fur
..tangled
 
             rusty                          urgent
                                                                   we are gliding

                                                                 together
 
                                                      gliding on
 
                                               to each
                                  other
                      mixed
 
              gathered
                                                      dampened

                                             thermal
 
                                       flight
                                of transient

                                     earth