I Sought Elation

I found:
colossal Mount Shasta swallowed in a milky halo,
three orange leviathans swimming
beneath the frozen surface
of a garden pond,
an amorous full moon beckoning me to flight,
a water-color sunset of grey and purple,
a soaring bald eagle, sharp-beaked, yellow claws joyful,
a wet-forest mushroom hiding in the image of wood, delicate fungii
genitals under,
a pine tree, heavy with cones, reflected in a sky-scraper window,
a great-horned owl perched atop a great pine, set against a flaming
sunset, head revolving back and forth,
an orange gecko, lounging from a Kona ceiling, ambushing passing
mosquitoes,
a peregrine falcon perched between two transformers,
two late winter crab apples still clinging to the tree, championing the
cause of last Fall,
a rainbow tiger bounding through the night of my imagination.