I Am a Castaway in the Sky

Nightfall scans the landscape

where brush shimmers from a flashlight

in the sky,

and rocky shore reflects nature’s gleaming

-- forest at night

is never caught sleeping.

Today’s struggle upstream meant

cutting to the edge of shore,

where sharp

did not slice bare feet.

Wellness in my life is a smile

I had for her,

the return not to be for me

once it was --

coming winter too short

to say goodbye.